Today, ask your waiter at any restaurant and you'll find out they are a college graduate. What does this tell you? That having a college degree does not mean you instantly get high paying jobs. Getting a job today is hard enough, so don't make it harder by making these mistakes.
Trying to wear too many hats
It's just not realistic that you could be a marketing guru, an expert graphic designer and a seasoned secretary. So do not subit a resume for all of these jobs at the same company. Do not submit your resume for multiple jobs at the same company, unless they are very closely related. This will simply make the company doubt how qualified you are for all the jobs you applied for.
Smudging the truth
It doesn't matter if your duties made you feel like the manager, the vice president or whatever. If that was not your actual title at that company, you can't say it was. Your potential employer will call your references and discover you're not as qualified as you claim to be and that will make you look very disrespectful of past employers. My friend taught singing lessons at a music academy, and she partook in a lot of decisions for the academy like hiring instructors, how to allocate budgets and so on. On top of being a voice instructor, my friend wrote on her resume that she'd been a member of the board at the academy, which was 100% fiction. When trying to get a job at another academy, they found out the truth about my friend. This instantly disqualified her as an applicant, which was a shame, because the new academy really did think she was good at teaching people how to sing.
Talking "smack"
Even if your previous boss was a complete monster, it is your job to find the most polite way to explain why and how your last job ended, to your new potential employer. Should you bad mouth a previous employer, that will instantly make the person interviewing you fear that you'd do the same to your next employer.
Faulty references
Don't put down a reference you worked for almost a decade ago, or one who actually did not work closely with you. Only list references who you actually interacted with regularly and who can talk in detail about your skills and quality of work. Also, whoever's name you do give out, let them know ahead of time that someone might call them for a reference. To really facilitate things, just jot down in an email a couple of the things you used to do when you worked for your reference.
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Vera Esther writes about topics in healthy living, relationships and travel. Her articles have appeared in dozens of publications and titles have ranged from "Is your date addicted to love?" to "Let your computer be your voice coach" (a review of the site http://www.thesingingzone.com/ )
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