I am just going through some resumes for my colleagues open position and am surprised at those "Job description like" ones. What I meant is that the resume looks like a copy of the job description of the titles that he/she had. They are full of things such as "Performed developer functions involving scope requirements, systems analysis, design development, documentation, software development, testing, implementation, and maintenance.", or "Developed applications in support of Level 3 operations, Business Partners requirements, and other special projects.".
I would say that this is the worst possible resume that you can make. It doesn't give any useful information for the hiring manager about what you can do and what you have done. Unless you were a dummy, nobody should fail to meet the above "Job Descriptions". But the problem with this is that it also shows that you have nothing to say about your previous/current job. A useful resume should list the Accomplishments front and center in all the jobs you have. And the explaination of the accomplishment can tell potential hiring managers about the level of success that you had. Absent that, one can only guess that the reason you didn't put any accomplishments was because, simple, you didn't have any.
These resumes really give me goose-bumps. I'd better go back and check mine...
