Here's the frustrating truth about most rejected resumes: it's usually not that the person wasn't good enough. It's a small, avoidable mistake that knocked them out before anyone really looked. These are the ten that most often cost Malaysian job seekers an interview.

The ten that do the damage

None of the job ad's keywords, so the ATS quietly ranks you near the bottom.
Heavy design — photos, tables, columns — that breaks the parsing.
Listing what your job was, instead of what you actually achieved.
No numbers anywhere, so nothing proves your impact.
One generic resume fired at every job, tailored to none of them.
IC number, age, or marital status taking up space for no reason.
Typos and grammar slips that read as careless.
An old or unprofessional email address.
Three-plus pages for a role that isn't senior.
Contact details missing, or buried where nobody can find them.

The good news

Almost all of these take minutes to fix. Tailor the resume to each job, start every bullet with an action verb and a result, cut the personal data nobody asked for, and run it through a checker before you send it. Small changes, noticeably more callbacks.