Language skills are vitally important to any CV and can often be the difference between getting hired and your paperwork falling to the bottom of the pile. In a mission to help job hunters improve the language used on theirs, Preply has analysed job search website Indeed’s CV database to reveal the most frequently used words featured in resumes in the past six months in the UK.
To do this, the online language learning platform created a seed list of more than 150 English words and phrases commonly used by job hunters in their applications. Each word from the list was searched on Indeed’s CV finder to discover the number of CVs updated or submitted in 2022 where it had been featured.
Alongside this, Preply also analysed Google Search volumes to investigate which of the 150 words job hunters have the most difficulty spelling to help raise awareness of common mistakes to avoid.
