During past couple of years many times I was asked by my colleagues in the HR department "Could you please shortlist these resumes for interviews?" answer was almost always yes. As a result I have gone through a large number of resumes to check whether if these people are suitable for an interview. While I'm scanning these resumes I found many reasons that I could reject these let alone the technical incompetencies of the candidates. Then suddenly one day I said to myself "why don't you write simple blog post about this?". So here I'm trying to put up a list of reasons that your resume might get rejected and how to minimize it. When you read this you will realize how trivial some mistakes are but they could surely cost your chance of landing your dream job. Typos in the resume Well I hate typos because it shows you how inconsiderate you are, keep in mind your resume is the first contact point with your potential employer so why don't