Have you checked the document properties of your CV/Resume ?

I have to deal with lot of word documents , presentations , excels in my Professional life. I get to see a common mistake done by most of us even by professionals . They over look the document properties ( Ok, i do not know how many of you ever seen that window/detail). We all copy from different articles, documents from all over. We do not start anything from scratch. We just start from what is currently available  or what we get from other resources . We change the contents according to our requirement. While doing such changes , the one thing which we overlook is the document properties. The Document properties has some basic info about the details such as the Author, Title of the document , tags, Company details etc., For those who does not know where to check this "File -> Properties" on Microsoft office for Mac and Office Button on top left corner -> Prepare -> Properties on Microsoft Office for Windows. You can select Advance properties from the drop down from the document properties appearing on the top.

Document Properties Menu - Windows

Sample Document Properties - Windows

Sample Document Properties - Mac

Ok, what is so fuzzy about it ?  

When we copy a document it retains the old properties. We change the content of the document but forget to change the properties of the document. This would create very embarrassing situations sometimes. I had a colleague who had created a document to be sent to the client. When it came for an internal review , i found he had forgotten to change the document properties and it had our competitor company name in the Author/Company field. My friend had copied some materials from his earlier life when he was working with our competitor. Think of what would have happened if our client would have seen this. This is just an example. I have seen many such mistakes. 

 This is a very common mistake everybody had done or still doing (including myself). For Eg., i hope everybody would have their CV/Resume on a word document. Am sure this would have been prepared by taking some samples from internet or copied from a friend/colleague. How many of you checked the document properties before using it ? If you haven't done yet. I would strongly advise you to check and correct it if required. 


Have a nice day !