10 most common words in Swedish CVs – Swedish Radio

How do you describe yourself in your resume? This is the word that most Swedes are using.

On this day, ie January 21 , is the day that most update their profiles on the career site LinkedIn, writes Business Week.

In connection with this, the site has featured the words that are most common for Swedes on LinkedIn have included in their CVs.

Here are the most common words

first Leadership
2. Excessive
3. Creative
4. Strategic
5. Passionate
6. Considerable experience
7. Responsible
8. Motivated
9. Positive
10. Broad experience

“Driven becomes easy floskligt”

– The most important thing when you use words to describe himself in his resume is to be concrete, says Charlotte Nordgren that are educational and career counselors at the University of Uppsala.

She believes that words like creative, strategic and responsible is easier to be specific about.

– If you write that you are responsible then it is good if you give examples of it . Like what you’ve done and where it has led to, says Charlotte Nordgren and concludes:

– Excessive contrast, is a word that many people use and that are easily floskligt.

Olivia J Berntsson
olivia.berntsson@sverigesradio.se