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 still wake up in a cold sweat remembering one of my early job applications. I hated my current job and wanted to do something totally different. Saw an advert in the paper (for lo! t'was in ancient times) for a website designer. And I DREW A PICTURE OF HOW I IMAGINED THEIR WEBSITE COULD LOOK AND COLOURED IT IN WITH PENCILS. Sent it off in an envelope with my covering letter as an example of my web design skills.

Oh goddddddd. I can't even run fast like a horse to make up for it.

I think she was a bit too interested in being a fire marshal. It sounds crap to me.

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 did wonder. 😀

As someone from the state of Georgia whose entire family are avid golfers and who attend the Masters regularly, we would be very impressed.

I've literally used WOW on my CV (and got the job). Being a Raid Leader, managing dozens of members who are logging in / working remotely, for something like 10 years, and being able to ensure a clear understanding of shared goals, keep everyone on task, analyse performance (combat logs) to fine tune deliverables and bring home the win ... At one point, I had the most victories in my class across all European servers. It's still the best management training / experience I ever had. Was in operations. Teacher now.

Knife skills.
That was literally the whole line, no further explanation. It was an application for a plumber so ‘knife skills’ wouldn’t be relevant. The whole CV was bizarre but that’s the part that has stuck with me.

Omg, these are just so funny. I really should be working, not on Mumsnet, but it's worth it.

Not a CV but a cover letter I received for a job I was advertising said ‘I don’t like to speak to anyone before my morning coffee and generally like to begin working after coffee and breakfast, around 10am’. The advert explicitly stated working hours were 8am-4pm. It was a telephony job 😆

I've seen bigboybarry@(domain name).

I had an application from someone who had a Batchelor of Arts (English).

I also interviewed someone who, when asked to describe something they had organised / managed told us in great detail about the charity senior citizens bingo session he ran once (to cover for someone on holiday, so all equipment etc in place) It took him 3 weeks to plan and he had to take time off work to plan it, and recover. He was 42 at the time.

😂😂😂😂😂

I would have invited them both for interview just to meet the dog!!

Baking but not competitively 🙄

🤣

Omg i love that! 😂

😂😂😂😂

all of these are so awesome

*denarii. I used to list Latin and Greek (Attic and Homeric) in the languages section of my CV. I feel very embarrassed about that now..

I have had a number of CVs which told me they wanted the job as it was close to home. Which is fair, but at least look up what we do!
My favourite was the 2 page rant about Government overreach and how tax payers money was misused. For a civil service job.

Wow!

I had an Italian job applicant. Under Hobbies he put “Developing the perfect tiramisu”. Was so gutted he was the wrong person for the role.

I once had to send an email reference request to an email address that was along the lines of [email protected]

I have IT the heads up in case it flagged me as up to no good at work

I've no idea if it's true or not, but I once heard of a guy who added to his girlfriend's CV under achievements:

I killed a man in Reno just to watch him die

followed by:

I invented jam.

Apparently, she got the job.

We had one for a while, @lornad00m, but people were using it to mock/bully people, so MNHQ smacked our wrists and took it away.

Someone from my hobby showed me her CV. I asked if she wanted advice or is she just showing it. She said she doesn't want advice. The CV had 3 pages dedicated to the achievements and titles she had had in our joint hobby.

I was given a candidate to interview for an accounting job who was had a clearly marked actuarial career. I was very confused.