A report by ExecuNet, Overcoming Today’s Toughest Résumé Challenges, by Marji McClure, advises that job-seekers not include these items on their resumes:
- Subjective claims. Avoid using adjectives or adverbs, such as “creative” and “results-oriented.”
- Personal information, such as hobbies, marital status, health status, political/religious affiliations, number of children.
- Extracurricular activities.
- GPA — if an executive has been out of school for many decades.
Sources: Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, Rachelle Canter, PhD, Jan Melnik and Meg Guiseppi.
You can download ExecuNet’s free publication, Overcoming Today’s Toughest Résumé Challenges, here.
In UK, we don't usually include date of birth among those things that you've listed. I have to disagree on Extracurricular activities, I believe they are necessary
We don't include date of birth in the US either.
I agree that extracurricular activities are highly desirable for new graduates and entry-level folks, but the audience for the quote report is executives. In the US, it would be odd for executives to include extracurricular activities on a resume.
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