Career Psychology
Resume Mistakes That Kill Trust Instantly
From invented metrics to AI buzzwords — mistakes that end your skim before skills are considered.
By CVPage AI Editorial · Published 2025-03-10 · Updated 2026-05-21 · 9 min
Invented or rounded-up metrics
Interviewers probe numbers. One fake statistic destroys the whole document.
Title inflation
Principal on paper, intern depth in bullets.
AI buzzword density
Signals low effort edit after ChatGPT.
Missing dates
Gaps without context read as hiding.
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