LinkedIn’s Resume Advice: The Top Ten Buzzwords to Avoid
Forbes.com
LinkedIn is taking a page from OkCupid’s book. The free online dating site, which has recently gotten attention for being a place where you can meet the richly controversial and famous, regularly dives into its treasure trove of profiles to offer advice and insights on its OkTrends blog. By analyzing user behavior on the site, it has offered up analyses of how your race plays into romantic responses, the lies we tell potential mates and the best photo to use to attract attention.
While analyzing professional résumés is a little less sexy than analyzing romantic ones, LinkedIn is giving it a spin. The advice may prove to be more useful to you if you’re seeking to land a job instead of a significant other.
LinkedIn has done a word analysis on the profiles of its 85 million users to come up with a list of the most overused words and expressions. Do you like to describe yourself as innovative and motivated? Then you may want to think about some synonyms to employ.
From the LinkedIn blog:
Top 10 overused buzzwords in LinkedIn Profiles in the USA — 2010:
1. Extensive experience
2. Innovative
3. Motivated
4. Results-oriented
5. Dynamic
6. Proven track record
7. Team player
8. Fast-paced
9. Problem solver
10. Entrepreneurial
Time to take a hard look at your resume and LinkedIn profile and try to eliminate these overused words…what we call “fluff” or “filler” in the resume writing/HR world!
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