Discover 5 common words and phrases on your resume that could be hurting your chances of landing your next sales job.

1. PHRASES
MIT
SALES RESUME
FROM YOUR
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2. Resumes are often your first
chance to make a good
impression on a prospective
employer and can even be the
deciding factor in whether you
get a call back for an interview.

3. While you want your resume to stand out, you also
want to make sure it stands out for the right
reasons. Keep reading to learn about five phrases
you should omit from your sales resume to avoid
getting your resume moved to the ‘No’ pile.

4. EXPERT

5. Having the word expert on your resume is only appropriate
if you can actually prove that you’re an expert. Many sales
candidates will use the word expert on their resume to
describe a skill that they perform extremely well. While
you may be very good at finding new business, that
doesn’t necessarily mean you’re an expert.

6. DIVERSE
BACKGROUND

7. Having a diverse background may sound like a good
thing on a resume, but hiring professionals will see
right through this technique when it comes to sales
reps. Candidates will often use this term in their
summary to make it seem like having a lot of different
jobs has given them a lot of experience. And while this
may be true, it also makes the candidate a job hopper,
and in sales, that’s a big red flag.

8. RELENTLESS
HUNTER

9. Hiring pros like when sales candidates use industry lingo and identify
themselves as a hunter or a farmer, but adding adjectives makes you
sound overly aggressive or that you’re exaggerating.
Keep the industry lingo but
lose the adjectives!

10. TOP PERFORMER

11. Another common phrase sales candidates use on their resumes is
top performer. This immediately stands out to hiring professionals,
but only if there are numbers to back it up. Just saying you’re a top
performer doesn’t mean anything to a hiring manager, but if they
see ‘100% against quota’ they will be more likely to reach out.

12. QUICK LEARNER

13. Finally, adding the phrase ‘quick
learner’ to a resume isn’t necessarily
a red flag, but it does make the
hiring professional wonder why you
needed to include it in the first
place. In most sales jobs, you will
have some sort of training or
process to learn so it is just
assumed that you would be a quick
learner. The best thing to do would
be to take this phrase off your
resume and focus on adjectives that
you can support with facts and
numbers.

14. Don’t let a few words keep you from getting a call back from a
hiring manager. Learn which words to keep off your resume
and improve your chances of landing your dream job.
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