1. Check the date: Previously, dates were not relevant in the top of a resume, but only found place in cover letters. However, it has now become common practice to include a date at the top of the resume as “summation of skills, experience, and qualifications as of such and such date.” It helps to project an image that the candidate is not stagnant and not using a general all-purpose resume.
   
   
2. Check the presence of the title of the job applied for: It is easy for resumes to get separated from their cover letters, and both for use of reference and as a precautionary measure, it is helpful to include at the top of the resume itself, the post or job position applied for.
   
   
3. Check the accuracy of personal particulars: Check the accuracy of personal particulars including name, address, email, phone number etc.
   
   
4. Check the objective statement: The objective statement should not be generalized, but focused towards the job applied for, using keywords from the job advertisement.
   
   
5. Check the presence of job location in the objective statement: To increase your chances of recruitment it is essential to include within the objective statement itself, the location of the employer as a keyword, and the fact that you are looking for jobs in that particular location.
   
   
6. Check the presence of relevant qualifications within the objective statement: Many recruiters rarely go beyond the first statement or first few lines in a resume, and it is imperative that you include relevant qualifications as keywords within the first line of the objective statement.
   
   
7. Check the formatting: Go over the text formatting of the document and recheck whether line spacing, paragraph spacing and character spacing, margins and indentation are even throughout the document.
   
   
8. Check for inconsistency: Check for inconsistency in fonts, and emphasis including bold and italics or underlining. For instance if your subheadings are in bold then check, whether all subheadings in the document are in bold or not, or whether you have missed any. For example, if your headings are underlined, check whether all headings are similarly underlined or not. If headings or subheadings use fonts different from the rest of the content, then they
   should be consistent across all headings or subheadings.
   
   
9. Check the structure of the presentation: Review the structure of the presentation, and whether it is properly structured, as you want. Try to break the entire document into small, focused, and readable paragraphs and shift less relevant details to addendum.
   
   
10. Check for irrelevant details: Scrutinize the document thoroughly for irrelevant details or details irrelevant for the instant job application. Either remove them entirely, or sort and shift them to the addendum.
    
    
11. Check for style: Substitute and straighten clumsy constructions. Always try to find easier ways of presenting a thing rather than adopting contorted methods. What may work on a brief does not work on your job resume. Avoid legalese wherever possible and use short sentences. If a sentence is too long, check whether you can break it up into parts and still convey the message you want to.
    
    
12. Check for mistakes in punctuation: Many people do not attach any importance to punctuation and throw colons, semicolons, and commas around as décor. Punctuation forms an important part of meaning, and the only thing you have to substitute the verbal part of communication in excess of words. Your pauses, stresses, excitement, questions and many other emotions that come through vocal modulation and body language during speech is expressed through punctuation in writing. Please be careful about punctuation and know the meanings and uses of each punctuation mark before using it.
    
    
13. Check for spelling errors: Spelling may be the most important part of proofing, but it should come last, and be done only when all other functions of document review are complete. Trying to do it the other way round will only increase or waste efforts. Do not rely on software spell-checkers; they are mostly inconsistent and unreliable for final proofing.

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