Choose Words Carefully in Your Resume

Beware the semantic slip in your resume. The wrong word choice can prevent you from getting the recognition you deserve.

You must pay attention to the industry you are targeting for your next job. For example:

Industries:

1) Information Technology, 2) Healthcare, 3) Banking.

Choose the right word for each field: A) Users B) Patients, C) Customers.

When you are ill in the hospital you don’t want to think of yourself as a customer...or as a user. A resume for a programmer or IT professional won't talk of patients, I hope.

A resume establishes your credentials. Don’t fail by choosing the wrong word. Amazingly, some job seekers pay scant attention to their resumes. Don’t be one of them.

Said Henri Delacroix, "The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language."

TIME 2007

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