Message #74821

[Katie G]

What I took from the article is that you need to be careful using those words if you can't back them up.  The example they use about saying "Ten years experience" as opposed to "Extensive experience" made a lot of sense to me.

We're going through a hiring process for a senior level director and  I've seen a lot of resumes and cover letters coming across my desk.  These words seem to appear, in some combination, on almost all of them.  Going back to the example of experience, the applicant who says they are "experienced" and then lists a good 10 years of valid, related, progressive experience is one thing.  The applicant who claims to be "experienced" and then lists only 18 months in a vaguely related position sends an entirely different message.  In the first case, the word actually means something.  In the second, it comes across as meaningless fluff.