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From Fox 5 Chicago&#39;s Job Talk Segment: Career Expert Jason Seiden offers a list of &quot;Five Mistakes That Job Seekers Make.&quot; &lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; id=&quot;video&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;280&quot; data=&quot;http://www.myfoxchicago.com/video/videoplayer.swf&quot;&gt;&lt;param value=&quot;http://www.myfoxchicago.com/video/videoplayer.swf&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;param value=&quot;&amp;skin=MP1ExternalAll-MFL.swf&amp;embed=true&amp;adSrc=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Edoubleclick%2Enet%2Fadx%2Ftsg%2Ewfld%2Fjob%5Fshop%2Fjob%5Fshop%5F3%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bpos%3D%3Btile%3D2%3Bsz%3D320x240%3Bord%3D245211968198418620%3Frand%3D0%2E05790972523391247&amp;flv=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxchicago%2Ecom%2Ffeeds%2FoutboundFeed%3FobfType%3DVIDEO%5FPLAYER%5FSMIL%5FFEED%26componentId%3D130328261&amp;img=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia2%2Emyfoxchicago%2Ecom%2F%2Fphoto%2F2009%2F08%2F03%2Finterview%5Fjob%5Fexperta215b847%2D5222%2D45b1%2Db118%2D9d15dc7c506e0000%5F20090803094242%5F640%5F480%2EJPG&amp;story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxchicago%2Ecom%2Fdpp%2Fjob%5Fshop%2Fresume%2Ffive%5Fmistakes%5Fjob%5Fseekers%5Fmake&quot; name=&quot;FlashVars&quot;&gt;&lt;param value=&quot;all&quot; name=&quot;allowNetworking&quot;&gt;&lt;param value=&quot;always&quot; name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot;&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;In case you don&#39;t have the 2:56 to spare to watch the clip, here are the Cliffs Notes, as lifted directly from a slide in the piece:&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul type=&quot;•&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt; • Know your value&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; • Don&#39;t tell me, show me&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; • Your resume is about you&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; • Don&#39;t ramble&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; • Do your networking alone&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the best quote from the piece has to be the following nugget on the art of resume writing, something Seibel says he learned from a High School English teacher:&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;When you write a paper, it should be like a woman&#39;s skirt—long enough to cover the subject, short enough to be interesting.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;--Posted by Phil Stott, Vault Staff Writer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;

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