Résumé Mistakes

When applying for a job in IT/IS or really anywhere technical, don't lie or exaggerate on your résumé. Skilled people will find out and you will likely not get the job. Or worse, you will get a job that you are not qualified to do and from which you may ultimately get fired, thereby ruining your career, your reputation, and possibly your life.

Quite frankly, it's better to underplay your skills and impress people then to exaggerate and disappoint.

My favourite memory of this is a long stream of candidates answering job postings which specified "experience with Unix and Linux systems" in the required skills. If you are going to put "extensive experience with Unix and Linux" on your résumé, then you should, at the very, very least, be able to name at least one Unix variant.

And "uhhhh..... Red Hat?" doesn't count.