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9 Resume Mistakes That Get Commerce Freshers Filtered Out
Recruiters spend seconds on a fresher resume. These nine mistakes end the review before it starts.
Priya Nair27 July 20265 min read
Every mistake below is one we have seen on real resumes reviewed at ClimbItUp. None of them are about design.
- Listing coursework instead of outcomes
- A career objective that could belong to anyone
- No numbers anywhere — not one figure, percentage, or headcount
- Two pages with one page of content
- An email address you made in class 9
- Skills rated out of five stars
- Articleship described as duties, not deliverables
- Inconsistent date formats
- A PDF named resume_final_final2.pdf
The fix in one line
Replace every responsibility sentence with a result sentence that contains a number.
| Instead of | Write |
|---|---|
| Handled statutory audit | Completed statutory audit of 4 mid-size manufacturers under a 3-week deadline |
| Good with Excel | Built a reconciliation model cutting monthly close from 5 days to 2 |
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