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Recruiting and hiring professionals often chastise job seekers for using weak, meaningless buzzwords on their resumes and social profiles – but maybe they should get their own houses in order before they start wagging their fingers at others.According to new research from LinkedIn, recruiters are just as guilty of smattering their LinkedIn profiles with empty clichés.By analyzing millions of recruiter and company pages on the website, LinkedIn came up with lists of the ten most common buzzwords deployed by recruiters and employers:The 10 Most Overused Buzzwords on Recruiters' LinkedIn Profiles: Specialized Leadership Experienced Focused Strategic Passionate Excellent Expert Generalist SuccessfulThe 10 Most Overused Buzzwords on LinkedIn Company Pages: Solutions Unique Leading Expert Vision Great Innovative Creative Platform StrategicIt's easy to see why these words are so common.

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