Less is more
It is vitally important that every item on your CV is believable. Every claim you make should be substantiated and proved, otherwise it's just puffery.
There's good reason for this. Every time a recruiter looks at an incoming stack of CVs, the first reflex is always to say "no" to every one of them. Well, what would you say with thousands of entries flooding your desk, and you're trying to get down to a short list?
Which means everything that looks like over-claim, self-indulgence, flannel or boastfulness is going to get rejected. And we haven't even got to lies yet. Or the principle that "bullshit baffles brains". Try it on your CV, and you're dead.
If you need a principle, remember that "less is more". If in doubt, leave it out - and be savage in the way you apply this. For instance, everybody uses the word "passionate" as a hype for commitment - for that very reason, it's an invisible word.
There are lots of others and you've seen them all before. So have recruiters and they are fed up to the back teeth with them. Avoid using these words, cut them out altogether, and you are more believable. Especially if you can prove the qualities that they represent.














