/> Don't disqualify yourself
One resume I received for a writing position said "I have no writing experience at all, but I was born in Scotland." In other words, this person was telling me that, aside from speaking English, he or she had no qualifications for the job. You should never stretch your credentials beyond what they are, but don't do the opposite and make it clear to one and all that you can't do the job.

Use your resume to sell your strengths
One would-be writer said, "I am current responsible for standardizing." In other words, while this person saw herself as someone who could help an employer standardize the work of many people and processes, which is often a good thing, she undermined her claim by showing she didn't even standardize what she had written to the rules of grammar. (She should have said "currently.") So she got to stay current where she was!
Show you can do good work
In most documents you write, typos might not be critical. But on resumes, where you're trying to explain how good a worker you are, it's counter-productive if you don't check your work. One resume I received claimed the author was "Able to set and meet goals in a fast past environment." Now, "past" is a perfectly good word, but what he meant was "paced." And his spell-checker didn't catch the typo, since "past" is a word. So this resume announced to hiring managers

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