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- An ex-Amazon recruiter says a key mistake job candidates make is writing vague statements in résumés.
- She compares these to "Miss America answers" that don't highlight specific achievements.
- It's best to quantify your achievements, she said.
A former Amazon recruiter says there’s one mistake that she keeps seeing both junior and senior employees making in their résumés: writing vague statements.
Lindsay Mustain — a former Comcast and Amazon recruiter and now CEO of Talent Paradigm — compared these statements to what she’d imagine hearing at a Miss America pageant in a recent interview with CNBC Make It.