5 things you should always have on your résumé and 8 items to leave out

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A résumé in pieces
Job seekers should leave out their photo and references on their résumé, experts told Business Insider.

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I got my first job by giving away home-cooked breakfast with my resumé. I was 15 at the time.

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Teddy Sheehan, not pictured, landed an apprenticeship as a plumber by thinking outside the box.T
Teddy Sheehan, not pictured, landed an apprenticeship as a plumber by thinking outside the box.T

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A Gen Xer with an MBA can't get a job despite over 1,500 job applications. He said his degrees have been useless.

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Marcial Quinones
Marcial Quinones has struggled to find a stable job in IT.

Marcial Quinones

Résumé gaps don't have to kill your job search — here's what to say about them

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Having a gap in your résumé doesn't have to derail your job search.

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A Google Cloud architect shares the résumé that helped her land the job — and how she prepared for its tough interviews

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Vishakha Sadhwani smiling whilst on a Google bike
Vishakha Sadhwani joined Google in 2021.

Vishakha Sadhwani

Most people hate this part of applying for a job — but it's still important to do

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As redundant as it may feel, you should still fill out those work history fields in a job application, even though that information is already in your resume.

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A career coach reviewed the 10-year-old résumé that got him into Google. He would make 3 changes today.

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Anthony Mays
Anthony Mays got hooked on computers and coding when he was seven.

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The likely reason your résumé got rejected

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Job seekers at a job fair are standing in a line
Software isn't necessarily the reason your résumé got rejected.

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I'm a millennial job seeker who kept getting my résumé rejected. Then, I changed the formatting.

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Dania Swails at college graduation
Dania Swails began working in finance after college.

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Jobseekers and recruiters are all using AI. It's chaos.

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AI Robots battling it out amidst a flurry of falling resumes
Jobseekers and recruiters are both using AI to get a leg up. It's a battle of the bots.

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When Josh Holbrook, a software engineer in Alaska, was laid off in January, he didn't expect to spend too much time looking for a new job. He certainly didn't think he'd need to relearn the job-hunt process.

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