If you sent in a CV to a store...

[OldClothes]

...how would you feel about the manager writing about tearing up CVs on FB, with negative comments about the spelling and grammar?

As you might have guessed, this is what a store manager on my feed has done.

When I worked in retail it wasn’t uncommon for us to put some CVs straight it in the bin. For many reasons.

We wouldn’t admit it on Facebook though.

This is the thing. It seems a bit mean and I don't know why they'd admit it.

Maybe not very tactful - but are they just making the point that people need to proofread their CV before submitting it for a job?

I'm assuming this store is independent. Better to give people a heads up I guess so they can correct it.

I agree it’s very mean spirited to admit it on social media.

Maybe it was their way of saying a general message of “don’t bother applying to work in my store if you’re not going to spell check etc”..

I'd be double checking my CV in case there were errors.

I'd have triple-checked mine for mistakes before submitting it, so I'd be confident it wasn't mine he was referring to. However woeful its actual content might be, it's correctly written and formatted.

I regularly have to review through large numbers of CVs and honestly the quality of most of them is abysmal.

I can excuse a couple of typos but some have typos in every paragraph, lots don't have any of the required experience from the job spec, some of the formatting is a mess.

Last time I went through a batch of 25 CVs and only 3 were suitable to move to the next stage. 1 was 8 pages long, another had literally just listed the job titles they have worked in for the last 18 yrs but no detail of what they did, another had a fucking poem as the personal statement this was for an Information a security role.

I nearly gave up.

another had a fucking poem as the personal statement this was for an Information a security role

Howling😂

😂

They actually work for a big chain.

Jesus is the post still up? I would pay for tickets to see the absolute ripping that my company would dish out to someone who publicly posted this.

I'd screen shot it and send it to HO

I'd feel mean doing that. But yes, they had better hope nobody high up sees it.

I’d probably ignore any CV or application that was poorly worded, badly spelled and grammatically poor. I wouldn’t broadcast it though.