After your resume is written, you are recommended to give it to somebody for a critical review. Although this is a necessary thing to do, if done to many a time or given to wrong people, it may appear to become an obstacle to your successful resume in the end. In fact, there are two main problems that can appear at this stage of your composing a resume:

• You may create an obstacle yourself if you suffer from mental condition called Resume-itis – a job seeker’s conviction that the problem of not receiving a job offer lies in the incorrect wording in his/her resume. By rewarding it, the job seeker tries to improve the situation.

• You may reach a point of analysis paralysis – a endless stream of resume critique, which comes from friends, relatives or colleagues but which doesn’t include expertise.

For overcoming any of these (or both) problems, you need to take two steps:
1. Decrease the number of people who provide the resume feedback for you.
2. Carefully choose the people to whom you give your resume for critique.

It is useful not only to limit the number of people who provide critique for your resume but also the number of times they do it. For example, you can have one person who is acquainted with your accomplishments and skills to look through the resume. This person may also comment on whether the information in the resume is logically arranged. Then you may address a professional who is very knowledgeable in your sphere of work but who doesn’t know you as a worker. He/she will, most likely, see whether your objectives and transferable skills correspond to the job you apply for.

Remember that not all of your friends and relatives can be right people to give feedback to your resume. The best person to do this is the one who works in the sphere you want to work at, or who has already worked with you.

A critiqued received from two or three people is enough to improve you resume before sending it to the potential employer.