Miranda advises deleting all words that are empty descriptives, such as ‘maven’ or ‘ninja’ or any other tongue-in-cheek phrase that isn’t a real title or professional descriptor. Too often, our vocabularies get saturated by meaningless buzzwords, and they can creep into our CV and cover letters, but these words often make a reader’s eyes glaze over. The risk with using them is that you might not be taken seriously — after all, empty fluff on your CV is never a good look.
