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

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FelicityShagsWell · 05/06/2026 00:44

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".

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ProfessorBinturong · 11/06/2026 20:50

"going on a lengthy discourse on any topic is inappropriate on a CV" is all you need. That's not religious discrimination.

WeatherDependant · 11/06/2026 20:58

Bikenutz · 05/06/2026 01:09

Fluent in French and sarcasm. 🙃

!!!! I’d well hire someone for this , at least interview

Shinyhappyapple · 11/06/2026 23:36

SarahAndQuack · 11/06/2026 20:38

This was someone applying for a postgraduate degree place, FWIW.

But it wasn't necessarily to discriminate. It was just obvious that they hadn't bothered to understand what the application required. They didn't address what they were asked, because they were too busy banging on about something irrelevant.

If they'd chosen to spend two pages of A4 rhapsodising about their adoration for pecan pie it'd have been equally twatty.

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Yes I totally agree that it wasn’t relevant or appropriate.

My concern was with the statements made by other posters. But I’m digressing from the point of the thread so I’ll leave it.

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SarahAndQuack · 11/06/2026 23:57

Oh, sure! Wasn't correcting you, just saying.

DixonD · 12/06/2026 09:48

Jeska7 · 05/06/2026 17:09

Not a CV but I interviewed someone with three other interviewers. They said in their previous job it was tedious and they put pictures on the wall to cheer colleagues up. Another interviewer misheard and thought he said pigeons on the wall. He said “what’s this about pigeons?” Me and the other colleagues interviewing nearly cracked up laughing. He interviewee repeated the what he’d said and my colleague still misheard. Must have been an accent? He then said “I missed what you said about pigeons never mind”. At this point I was really struggling to not laugh. Later he said he also told jokes to his colleagues at the last job. He said they didn’t laugh at the jokes he made up but they laughed at ones he got out of a joke book. The job was an office job and nothing related to making people laugh or anything.

Had a few other very interesting interviews too.

I’ve worked in an office for 23 years. You always need someone like this guy 😆

oliviaAustin · 12/06/2026 10:02

BoxOfCats · 05/06/2026 01:35

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

I’d hire them just for that

YoBetty · 12/06/2026 14:45

Babyputyourpantson · 07/06/2026 21:19

Now they just ask where do you see yourself in 5 years time 😂

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I went for an interview some years ago, and by the time that very question popped up I'd already decided the job wasn't for me and I didn't want to work there, so I said "Doing your job".😁

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