Avoid doing these in your resume - recruiters don't appreciate them.

• Omitting vital information is asking for trouble. Recruiters expect to see all that is required without having to hunt for it.
  
  
• Non consecutive jobs in your employment history give rise to questions. If you do have gaps between jobs, be prepared for questions at interview. It would be far better give an explanation in your resume.
  
  
• Summaries that are difficult to follow can irritate recruiters. Keep your summary simple and brief. 
  
  
• Avoid using fancy fonts and formatting in your resume. Something simple and straightforward and easy on the eye is all that is needed.   
  
  
• Do not write your resume as a narrative or in the third person. It can make you appear arrogant or egotistical.
  
  
• Using pictures or graphics in a resume can be distracting, and can often get your application disqualified without a glance.
  
  
• Recruiters know what your objective is in applying for the job so avoid adding superfluous introductions and objectives. To do so could push you down the list of applicants.
  
  
• Providing any untrue or misleading information on your resume is a complete no-no. Anything you submit can be checked up on and if you are caught with a lie on your resume, you will be deemed untrustworthy.
  
  
• Detailed information about your hobbies can be counter productive. You only have a limited amount of space within a resume to paint an effective picture of yourself and your abilities so concentrate on your accomplishments.
  
  
• If your resume is not a match for the job you are applying for, be prepared for it to be thrown on the rejection heap. You are only irritating the recruiters by wasting their time.   
  
  
• Avoid wordy language and very long paragraphs or your resume will not get fully read. Make it harder for a recruiter to read and their job takes too long, so your resume gets put to one side. 
  
  
• If your resume is longer than two pages it probably won't get fully read. Tough, but that's the way it can be.
  
  
• Detail your work history in the wrong order and it will be hard to follow. Always commence your details with the most recent jobs at the start and work backwards.
  
  
• Avoid going into too much detail about your duties in previous jobs. It is not necessary. The recruiter is looking for a broad overview of your experience to see whether your experience matches the type of person they are looking for. Too much detail at this stage is counter productive.
  
  
• Errors in grammar and spelling on both your resume and accompanying letter, suggest you do not pay attention to details.

Resume Tips - Dealing with large gaps in your resume
Resume Traits To Avoid