A woman who has reviewed over 40,000 resumes says these are the 5 most annoying mistakes she sees

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When Tina Nicolai began working as a recruiter for Walt Disney World in the late 1990s, she noticed that many job seekers were submitting flawed résumés.

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"I realized people simply did not know how to market themselves or their achievements," Nicolai tells Business Insider. "And that's how I knew there was a market to educate job candidates at all levels and in all industries."

So in 2010, she founded Résumé Writers' Ink.

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"Since launching my company, I've read over 40,000 résumés," she says. And there are a few mistakes she's seen over and over again that are "pretty irritating."

They are:

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