Accounting Resume Gaffes

Accounting resume gaffes can result in negating chances of an accounting professional in getting a job in the company or a bank he desires to join. Resume gaffes or blunders can negatively highlight job seeker impression to the prospective employer and can hamper his/her chance of getting selected. Care has to be taken in using right language devoid of grammatical mistakes in the resume.

Accountants new to the field typically have a habit of exaggerating figures and statistics. Following resume is an hilarious and funny example of accounting resume gaffes or blunders. Do learn to avoid these kind of mistakes

Name: Myname Surname

Address:  Madison enclave, Wisconsin

Objective: Want to be accounted as a greatest accountant ever is USA, I have stamina, energy and determination to work nonstop for years together. I want to be “THE" accountant.

Work Summary:

• Highly experienced in figures, in fact, I enjoy figures
• Good at spreading sheets
• Good at credit, poor at debit
• Worked as Deputy Manager cum junior accountant

Professional Experience:

• Kept and managed account of nearly six trillion dollars of the company but sadly didn’t saw even one thousand dollars of it
• Loved to account receivables of the customer but unfortunately can’t understand it properly as I am weak in solving maths problems
• Most of the time use calculator while working on excel worksheets
• Excellent god gift accounting corporation

Trainee Experience: 

• Worked only for two days and then fired and ultimately resigned by putting down papers
• Designed excellent module in excel which helped my successor to follow my suit
• Signed on one million dollar pay check of CEO as I was the authorized signatory
• Championed the entire account team for debt recovery from the customers

Skills: Can boot all Windows and Macs. 

Above resume can be a classic example accounting resume gaffe or blunder. Instead of being a tool for the prospective accounting professional hunting for a job it ends up being thrown into the trash can.

It may present funny side of accounting resume mistakes. But one must learn not to make such mistakes.