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".

I can't think of any as good as these, but I did have:

Hobbies:
God

🤣🤣 gotta keep a close control of those denarius!

A young Chinese woman noted her involvement in her school’s ’propaganda’ department.

My DH received a covering letter written by the man’s cats attached to an email with Meow in the subject line. DH duly replied to the cats.

I, in my youth, played a very obscure sport to a very high level including a single international appearance. I have it on my CV because it always gets a reaction. I always get asked about it. It’s a good way to break the ice.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

1. • Olympian
2. • Sandwich reviewer.

I was reading through applications yesterday for a job we have advertised.

One guy had put as the reason he'd left every job (and there was quite alot in the last five years) "too repetitive".

One woman wrote six times throughout the application how she enjoyed working independantly from home, it's a hybrid role.

There was a few you could tell people had just applied to meet their quota from the job centre and were just one word answers.

Under achievements, one man said that he’d got a hole in one at Augustus

This made me laugh out loud! Brilliant. I'd be tempted to hire her/him!

Someone applying for a customer services role, English as a second language. I think he wanted to say that he had had previous exposure to customers / customer service as he had worked on the Reception Desk. What he actually said was, "I have previously exposed myself to customers on the Reception Desk." I hope not!!

I work in recruitment, so… many.

Personal favourites are:

The CV that had an in depth description of Scientology, including quotes from Dianetics.

The person who put my company name on her CV and when we correctly informed her she doesn’t work for us she said “no, but I’d like to - I was manifesting.”

My favourite was the CV which stated that "I thieve in a pressured environment". I think it was supposed to say "I thrive in a pressured environment", and that the writer had misspelt "thrive", which had then been corrected by a spellchecker into "thieve". At least I hope that was the explanation...

Is that last sentence literal because it’s ice skating?

Achievement: Prom Queen

is that even a thing in the uk?

Google says that is actually a bona fide recognised language.

Could well turn out to be more useful than the guy who was business fluent in Latin!

That barbering one deserves a spot.

they took the criticism, found a solution. Honest about the issue and what they want to change. You can work on the language later 🤣

They put their mum down as a personal reference.

Did he invite the cats for interview?

Definitely a few absolutely daft email addresses ... Along the lines of "[email protected]" or "[email protected]".... And that's for applicants to be trainee solicitors/solicitors.

Work experience gained inside prison. At least he was upfront. I did interview him, nice young man but then he asked me whether I wanted to go for a drink and curry afterwards. I politely declined his offer with “I’m married” as I didn’t want to give him a lecture on inappropriate timing but his response was “don’t bother me!!”

Not a CV, but…

Bloke I interviewed just seemed a complete wrongun, so I googled him after the interview. Wish I hadn’t, he was advertising himself as a male escort with a speciality in domination, quite a descriptive advert including pictures. Yours for a night if you hand over £150.

I let our internal recruitment team handle the rejection of him.

He races cars in his spare time and has a 90 year old tortoise. Very eccentric man

We once received a very funny CV for someone applying for an accounts department job. I still have a copy of it somewhere. Among many other things it said as a reason for leaving their previous job that they had been doing the job for some time and not been promoted, and felt that they were being completely ignored, and that management seem to neither know nor care they worked there. They said they asked for a promotion, which reminded their employer of their existence to the extent that they were immediately made redundant.😂

Under the "Professional Body" section people would write their own name- saw this many times, made me laugh that so many people didn't know what it meant but interpreted it the same way 🤣

There was a question about how do you manage your time and someone wrote "I like to go with the flow".

As a few other people mentioned, "why did you leave your last job?" always had stories of betrayal and vengeance.

Working in an advertising agency we'd receive regular Cvs on spec. A young woman, presumably trying to stand out, sent printed postcards with three pictures of her in an increasingly drunken state, ending with one draped over a pub table.

She wasn't invited in to show her portfolio.