To ask for the biggest CV fails you've come across?

Haha. You made a boastful post about how nobody could write a CV that passed your "scrutiny" (lol), made a mistake and are now complaining about nitpicking and belittling. I love how you generously told us you would be willing to proofread a FEW CVs for us, just a FEW. How many requests have you received? Why are you trying to get women to send personal documents to you?

Yes she was young and hadn't had a lot of experience with the non basic tools in word. She did get the job despite going to the interview in shoes more appropriate for a night club and they have supported her over nearly 10 years to go from an entry level job to getting various finance qualifications and a career in business. They definitely knew what they were getting when taking her on! She is very grateful of their backing. She was self taught after having to drop out of school due to ill health during her a levels. She thought there was something wrong with her version of word rather than the crossed out bits being part of the document.

😂😂😂

aw that's the kind of thing i'd do. Then i'd agonise over whether to just radically accept the fuck up, or to trying and apologise. Oh! sorry about that! I don't usually make mistakes honestly!

One listed all the professional rolls he’d had over previous jobs.

@Pistachiovillian @NonPlayerCharacter

You're both nitpicking a grammatically correct sentence whilst trying to belittle. Nice try :)

This sentence places more emphasis on the fact that I haven't found any at all.

I'd argue "found even one" is more formal and literary.

😂 Had a few but not that bad!

Any interviews for those jobs?!

I received one for a very serious role that said 'willing to relocate anywhere I can get my head down and my hustle on"

Did you at least interview her?! Sounds great.

I’ve worked on several automated CV readers and they could all parse PDFs.

You do need to be careful about formatting in any document, as if you do something graphical or “clever” it may confuse the parser and PDFs tend to be worse for this, but a straightforward PDF should not be a barrier at all.

My daughter ( who has just got most amazing apprenticeship, proud mum boast) was applying for temp work to tide her over the summer. Was giving it big about how much she loved White Stuff and demonstrating her company knowledge, to then wonder why she didn't hear anything as ticked all the boxes, then she realised she had actually applied for the White Company!

I received one once that said "I work in a conscious manor"

I pictured a haunted house 🤣

I once had a job typing up CVs and I had one customer who wanted to include on his cv that his sister was a doctor and he drove a BMW. I asked him if he was certain he wanted to include those details. Well! He reminded me I was just a typist and he was not looking for my advice. Fair enough. He had the confident demeanour of a man with a doctor sister and a bmw parked outside.

That's hilarious. I hope you styled it out. Yes, poof-reading. I was the first to detect that Graham Bigglesworth was gay in year 3.

He said he'd be happy to proofread a FEW for us, just a FEW. I wonder how many requests there have been.

Had someone tell me about a very impotent role they played in a project…

I once mispelled count as cunt in my CV :)

🤣🤣🤣🤣 excellent

I once included a line, years back, about a waitressing job I had in which I made it sound like I was given drinks in exchange for eating customers. Still makes me laugh. Unsurprisingly no one wanted to hire me until I fixed that clanger!

This post needs to come with a warning. I was chomping on a sandwich when I read it and DH thought he was going to have to do the Heimlich on me, I laughed so hard.

So glad she got the job.

Fair enough if he was applying to a bakery!

The candidate with email - dumgurl@gmail

seriously who hires dumb girl?

If you are reviewing a CV for a colleague or friend, you can add snarky or jokey comments that you definitely wouldn't want to be viewed by an employer. Getting a final version without track changes showing takes a few steps, so a pitfall for the novice Word user.

I worked for an incredibly posh woman as a temp just after leaving university while I decided what to do and where to go next. She was editor of the professional books section of the publishing house I was at. She had this knack of making me clumsy, stupid and idiotic around her. She terrified me. Anyway, she'd dictated a letter and I was about to take it in to her for signing when, at the last minute, as I was putting it in front of her I realised instead of typing 'I'll head over to see Bryan early and look at it with him' I'd written 'I'll head over to see Bryan early and look a tit with him'.

She would have killed me with her bare hands if she'd ever caught sight of it. 😂I don't think she'd ever said the word 'tit' in her entire life.

I was once shortlisting for interview and we had over 100 applications so we shared the sift. By chance, I received two absolutely identical competencies. I don’t know which candidate was the original author, but both were rejected.