- How much money you want
- Why you’re changing jobs, or why you left a previous one
- Social Insurance Number
- Addresses of former employers
- Your age
- Marital Status
- Whether you have children, or are pregnant
- Height, Weight
- Health status or disabilities
- Race and/or Religion (if it is important to the job, put it in the cover letter)
Employers’ Pet Peeves about Resumes
- More than two pages long
- Poor quality paper or colour pape
- Typing mistakes or hand-written corrections
- Listing odd jobs that aren’t related to what you’re applying for
- Repeated information, repeated information, repeated information…you get it!
- Inflated or boastful claims
- Fancy pictures or charts
- A wrinkled or dirty resume, or a poor photocopy
