Here are some things that you should not include in your resume:

Leave out salary requirements. Go in to win the job. Once you are the employer's primary candidate, you have more bargaining power than you did when you were just a piece of paper sitting in a stack of dozens of similar resumes.

Leave out personal information, such as activities, hobbies, interests and non-job related skills, that have no relevancy to your work history. This information can often be a factor in rejection, and is very rarely a deciding factor in scheduling you for an interview. If you have career-related information that you feel must be present in your resume, place it between your employment history and your references, at the end of your resume. This information usually includes professional affiliations or industry publications.

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