面試主考官告訴你：寫履歷不可犯的６個基本錯誤

Be specific.

If you manage a project with 10% of growth rates in sales, write it in your resume. Don't write general statements such as “coordinated projects assigned by manager.”

Use your main achievements to convince hiring managers that you are experienced.

不可犯的錯誤３：請不要用自拍照（請不要放照片在英文履歷）

Mistakes 3：Don't use selfie (Don't show your photo if it's English resume.)

要不要放照片，取決於你應徵工作所在的國家跟類型。通常英文履歷不放照片，特別是如果你應徵海外工作，西方國家為了避免因外貌而產生任何歧視顧慮，英文履歷慣例上不會放照片。

但是台灣職場還是普遍要求履歷附上照片，我也因此看過各式各樣的網美自拍照出現在履歷表上。大家可能覺得耍帥露奶抱寵物拍照，很可以表現自己的個性跟優點，但這只成立於你在自己的社交平台上跟朋友互動。

履歷是代表你的專業度，如果一定有必要放個人照片在履歷上，請務必放專業照，人資主管永遠先是在乎你的專業適不適合應徵的職位，而不是你的性感自拍照有多美。

Here's the difference between Taiwan and Western resumes. Generally, there's no personal photo in English resume, especially if you apply for jobs outside of Asia. 

However, professional photo is often required in Chinese resume. I need to highlight “professional photo” doesn't mean “selfie.”

We can post all kinds of selfie with our lovely pets, or dress in sexy outfits in our social media pages.

But I suppose you don’t want hiring managers to have the first impression of you in a sexy outfit. 

Resume is the marketing tool to present your professional image. If you do need to include your photo, please use professional photo of yourself.

不可犯的錯誤４：請勿用自傳產生器產出千篇一律的自傳

Mistake 4：Don't use summary / autobiography generator.

網路上可以找到所謂的自傳產生器，讓你可以「參考」或是填空主修／興趣等，彈指間，輕輕鬆鬆產出一篇自傳放在人力銀行制式履歷中。

結果就是，你的自傳跟其他千百人的自傳都一樣，每個人都是「出身小康家庭，母慈子孝，兄友弟恭，從小被父母教導要勤奮向上，個性積極陽光……」

以人資主管的角度來看，你家中有多少成員，兄弟姊妹從事什麼工作，跟我一點關係都沒有，我不需要知道你的個人隱私，我需要知道的是，你究竟有沒有足夠的專業能力勝任應徵的職務。

英文履歷中也有「summary」 類似於中文履歷中的自傳，內容集中於表述應徵者的專業能力以及經驗，讓人資主管可以快速了解應徵者的專業背景跟能力。

中文自傳的篇幅較英文履歷summary更有彈性，建議著重在自身工作經驗的主要成就跟專業背景。

In Taiwan, candidates usually attach their autobiography, which works as professional summary, with their resumes. Since we can see autobiography as professional summary, it means writing it in professional way. 

I know there's autobiography generator provided by some of job sites. You can fill in key words such as college major, personality and it will give you an autobiography similar to hundreds of others.

Seriously, I have read different candidates' autobiographies that they are all“grew up in a middle-class family and were taught to be a good person; parents are kind; siblings have good jobs too.”

But what would I as a hiring manager want to know your personal information such as how many people there are in your family and where you grew up？ They are not relevant to the professional skills and personalities that the job required. 

Every time I receive the autobiography/summary starts with“I grew up in a middle-class family…”this kind of generator stuff, I suspect the candidate has no professional achievements and skills to present him/herself.

不可犯的錯誤５：不要用負面的角度表達

Mistake 5：Don't write from a negative point of view.