You always want to be as professional as possible in every step of your job search — and this includes your resume.

Everyone hates having to write a resume but that is no excuse to rush through it. So once you’ve finally forced yourself to actually sit down and create one, be sure to take your new (or revised) resume and: run spell check on it and proofread it a half a dozen times — AND then have at least two other people proofread it to see if they can find any errors.

IMPORTANT – Spell check will NOT tell you that you have used the wrong, correctly spelled word in place of the correct word.  An example of this we see just about everyday is “Restaurant Manger” instead of “Restaurant Manager“.  Or “Costumers” in place of “Customers“.

Having an error free resume is one more way of demonstrating to your prospective restaurant employers that you are intelligent and pay attention to details.

We hope the following list of common typos, word choices and spelling errors will help you avoid them on your resume.