although phrases such as «detail - oriented», «team player», and «hard working» are generic and more often than not
just FILLER words in a resume, it's important to note that most companies don't have the resources to individually review resumes... so they use software that scans resumes for keywords and only selects those which have a high percentage match of those specific keywords which directly affects those which fall onto the Hiring Manager's desk.
Not exact matches
Just like any
filler word, «so» is used by speakers at points of uncertainty to stretch the time their brains have to think about the next point, response, or question.
Will fill this in later so I'm
just going to throw some random
words out as
filler for the time being: Argle - bargle, Bumbershoot, Cantankerous, Collywobbles, Flummox, Gobbledygook, Hobbledehoy, Snollygoster, Widdershins... and Bob...
Where do you find 30,000 more
words without
just adding
filler or fluff?
Virtually everyone uses verbal
fillers, though the frequency can vary greatly from person to person.18 A study of one language database showed that speakers produced between 1.2 and 88.5 uhs and ums for every thousand
words, with a median
filler rate of 17.3 per thousand
words.19 Other databases show anywhere from three to twenty uhs and ums for every thousand
words, placing uh and um thirty - first in a ranking of most commonly used utterances,
just ahead of or and
just after not.20 A British study showed that, contrary to popular expectations, the use of verbal
fillers does not indicate a lack of education or manners; instead, the use of uh and um increases with education and socioeconomic status, a finding with particular implications for the legal profession.21 Older people use more uhs and ums than younger people, and, curiously, men consistently use verbal
fillers more often than women — a finding that has been replicated across several studies.22 Women, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparts.23
Filler words like «actually» and «
just» are often conversational tics that don't communicate much.
These are an example of
filler words that
just take up space.
Do you see how much more convincing it would be to describe the experience rather than to
just list out
filler words that make you sound like you know what you're doing?