Top 10 Things You Shouldn't Include on Your Resume: Silicon India

PS. Most of these are common mistakes, new Canadian immigrants need to AVOID!!!

23 August 2012
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10. Using too many objectives
9. About Your Short-term jobs
8. Strange Hobbies
7. Revealing private matters
6. Writing the resume in extra pages
5. Writing the resume in the third person
4. Including references
3. Mentioning current company’s phone number or mail-id
2. Bad usage of English grammar
1. Attaching Photographs

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Young and old spend same amount of time job-hunting: Statistics Canada

By: Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press, 08/22/2012

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OTTAWA - Older unemployed workers spend as much time looking for a job as younger ones, according to a new Statistics Canada study.

The agency says unemployed people aged 55 to 64 spent an average of 13 hours a week looking for work — the same as those between the ages of 20 and 34.

But the study found key differences in the way each age group looked for jobs.

Older people were more likely to look at job ads and less likely to use the Internet than younger job hunters.

Younger people were more likely to contact employers directly as their main method of finding a job.

Both age groups turned to employment agencies in similar numbers. continue reading