What not to put in your resume

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I've reviewed a lot of resumes lately, and there have been some that actually made me cringe.

When applying to a developer, this guy listed email as a core competency. And no, he did not mean that he can chat about the relative merits of POP/SMTP vs. IMAP over coffee.
I understand the need to put everything in the resume to inflate it, but some things should be implict.

Another gem was a guy listing several years of experiance in Java, working in ADO.Net against SQL Server. Hm... possible, if he was using J#. Chances that he was... ? Nil to none, I would say.
On the other hand, the resume was full of all the buzzward of yesterday.

There were a few that cought my eyes, because they actually listed projects that they did, and some included details. Knowing that they actually did something with their skills is much more important to me than a checklist of stuff in a resume.

Then again, maybe I shouldn't speak. I am not hirable by my resume.