Too many bullets

In the same vein, you can also overload your résumé with too many bullet points, which Augustine calls "death by bullets."

"If absolutely everything is bulleted, it has the same effect as big dense blocks of text — your eyes just glaze over it," she says.

Augustine explains that bullets are only to be used to draw attention to the most important information. "If you bullet everything, everything is important, which means really nothing stands out," she says.