{"id":2495,"date":"2011-10-17T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/10\/overused-adjective\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:33:00","slug":"overused-adjective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/10\/overused-adjective\/","title":{"rendered":"Overused Adjective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am spending an inordinate amount of time reviewing resumes and one particular word keeps appearing throughout many of the resumes.&nbsp; The word is\u2026<\/p>\n<p>proven<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most insipid phrase is this \u2013 \u201cproven track record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every time I see this phrase I immediately want the candidate to prove it.&nbsp; In most instances, the quoted achievement would be difficult to prove to an outsider.&nbsp; That fact makes this throw-away phrase easy to included.&nbsp; My personal take is to have the candidates simply state their record in numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am spending an inordinate amount of time reviewing resumes and one particular word keeps appearing throughout many of the resumes.&nbsp; The word is\u2026 proven Perhaps the most insipid phrase is this \u2013 \u201cproven track record.\u201d Every time I see this phrase I immediately want the candidate to prove it.&nbsp; In most instances, the quoted achievement would be difficult to prove to an outsider.&nbsp; That fact makes this throw-away phrase easy to included.&nbsp; My personal take is to have the candidates simply state their record in numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[903,55,639,1695],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Ef","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->