What's the oddest thing you've seen listed on a CV?

[FelicityShagsWell]

What's the weirdest thing you've seen on a CV? I received one in application for a job and they had put a hobbies section in which they'd listed "smoking".

My work (not my CV)

Fluent in French and sarcasm. 🙃

Similar to a previous poster. Someone handed in a CV which was fine except that the email address was [email protected] !

A very earnest, well-qualified American candidate for a Cambridge postgrad course who included an enormous amount of detail about their relationship with Jesus and how it guided their life. I get where this comes from, obviously, but it was eye-opening to find someone intelligent enough to be making a competitive application but also arrogant/insular enough not to realise this was massively inappropriate.

She cited as experience the fact that she’d been coming in to our office on weekends to help her mum with the photocopying. That would be the photocopying of highly confidential client documents that nobody other than employees was allowed to see. Which the mum was claiming overtime for doing on weekday evenings but in fact during those evenings was making calls to a boyfriend in Australia on our work lines.

We had to sack the mum, and report a data breach to the commissioner.

Not a CV but years ago I used to work at a further education college processing course applications. Applicants used to have to write a personal statement saying why they wanted to do the course.

On one application for a barbering course, they'd put 'I already cut hair but my boss says I'm crap which is why I want to do this course.'

On another for a business studies course, the statement was totally normal about why they wanted to do business studies, apart from the very last sentence which said 'I can run very fast like a horse.'

Latin, business fluent

A picture of herself wth her 2 kids on page 1. The whole CV was an abomination tbf, it was all in Comic Sans, in multiple different colours (one section in red, the next in green, the next in blue etc). At the end of each job section (and there were about 3 pages worth) she'd put reason for leaving and they wer hilariously honest 'one of the directors died and the other one didnt like me so got rid of me', 'they promised I could be a fire marshal and changed their minds', 'I only lasted 2 weeks because it wasnt a nice place to work'., 'it wasn't what I expected' and so on.

Job application form for building site work.
Marital status: "Iffy".

Not me but a friend of mine was reading the CV of a young lad

It went into great detail about his time on the Jeremy kyle show

It was a toss up (apparently) on who was the father of a baby-him or his brother

'Neither' was the answer

My mate thought that he was young and stupid but would give him a chance (and maybe have a word about the cv)

He rocked up in a dirty tracksuit,expensive trainers,baseball cap,chewed gum and only said things like 'yeah!' and 'whatever'

He didnt get the job and rang up screaming about it

A friend worked as a manager at Burger King for a while in the early 90s.

Got an application from a teen. Under interests he had put "hanging out with my homies".

At my law firm we had an application from someone whose "other information" listed that she competed nationally at a martial art and had once come third for her country. Further that she had received an award from the police for apprehending a mugger, retrieving the victim's bag and performing a citizens arrest. She got an interview and the job. We were expecting a huge bruiser of a woman and were very surprised when a very feminine dainty blonde lady walked in. She was very nice. A crap lawyer unfortunately!

Mine seems to have a few crackers on it, as people always like to ask about them in interviews. Apparently, it is unexpected that someone like me (small female) can shear alpacas and has experience of milking cows, goats, sheep and buffaloes... OK, some of them are a bit niche, but I like to keep life interesting and varied, and you never know when those skills might come in handy!

Fortunately, I work in farming.

My ex colleague once received a covering letter for a job that said the reason the person wanted it was so that they could buy some Nike Air trainers.

Haha, that's fantastic! I thought the days of putting one's hobbies on a CV were long gone. Probably because they kept getting people putting things like sky diving, learning Japanese etc. when really they should have put smoking, drinking, wanking!

I remember a CV where they’d written “my friends say I’m just like Tigger!”

Yeah, bye

😂😂😂

Special interests:
Pharmacy Tech- Making home-brew and growing hydroponics
Admin support role- Won the limbo competition at school. Rhythmic gymnastics for 5yrs. Can do the splits and touch my head with my foot
Retail- 8yrs of private hose riding lessons (this was my own brother who hadn't ask anyone to proof read his CV!)

Different, highly restricted company, where successful candidates would require a drug test if successful. When they opened their passport, out came a little bag of cocaine.

The same guy sent me his CV for every job I advertised for years. Unfortunately the largest part of his CV was dedicated to his mystical journey and his experiences as a psychic.

I just wanted someone to run Google ads 🤷‍♀️

Hobbies:: Smoking!

World of Warcraft as an example of leadership skills and working as part of a team. Which in a way I quite admired for thinking outside the box but not quite what we were looking for in a management candidate, especially without any relevant professional experience!

“I can run very fast like a horse”.

That person should be getting themselves into sketch comedy writing, not business studies. 😂

NC.

The fact she was shortlisted for Miss World and had won "Best Hair" at Miss Great Britain one year.

The post was for a molecular biologist.

Under Languages spoken:

Klingon.

Their star sign. And the signs they worked best with.

Also had CVs from a few dodgy Hotmail addresses over the years!