This document provides 10 common mistakes to avoid when creating a video resume or interview, including having a poor camera angle, lighting, eye contact, sound quality, or background. It advises editing entrances and exits, finding a neutral background, maintaining eye contact with the camera, avoiding reading from your resume, using a microphone if needed, and not improvising. The document also suggests avoiding excessive facial jewelry, getting too personal, saying filler words, touching your face, or providing too much unnecessary information.

1. 10 commonmistakes :
1. Edit your entrance and your exit
2. Poor camera angle
On yourlevel
3. Find a neutral background
Nice, natural, not in yourkitchen or your living room
4. Poor lighting
Natural or artificial, but not enough (otherwisewedon’tseeyou) and not toomuch
(becauseitwillbelike in a terrormovie or an interrogation scene)
5. Poor eye contact
Don’tlookingaway, yourkeyboard..
6. Don’treadyourresume
That isreally important, don’t do that
7. Poor soundqualityitisalso an issue
If you have a badquality, echo or anythingelse, youcan use a microphone
8. Don’t improvise
9. Avoid excessive facial jewelry
It canbedistracting and itis not whatyouwant to do
I meanyou have to presentyouprofessionaly
10. Don’tgettoopersonal
The videois about you, not about yourfamily, yourfriends or your pets
Otherstips, thatwedon’t do :
- You have to avoid : euh, hum, uh
- Don’ttouchyour face or scratch yourhead
- Be careful to don’tsaytoomuch information, don’tbubble or waffle