To ask for the biggest CV fails you've come across?

[Kidulthood2027]

Have just realised I've been sending off a CV with a sentence that reads "I undertook regular security checks of the hotel during evening shits." I had meant to say "shifts". I thought I had proofread the CV thoroughly before sending it off, but clearly not enough. I was wondering why I was receiving so little interest for basic retail/food service jobs. Absolutely mortified. Any stories to make me feel better? Can be from you or from CVs you have reviewed during your working life.

This is also a thing in Asia, and I had one CV where the photo was very obviously (to me anyway) his come to bed eyes in bed selfie. 😂

Brilliant. Glad she got the job!

😂😂😂😂😂

That is so the recruitment firm can make modifications

Sorry I'm howling at this 🤣

Probably because her references were Folsom.

This example was not an error.

In my first secondary headship, I got an application for a teaching post to which the candidate added a CV (these are not usually requested nor required in teaching - we want the form completed fully plus a personal statement in support of the application).

Anyway, out of curiosity I had a look at the CV - which was more than 20 pages long.

Under "Interests" he had written that he was a blood and sperm donor.

I went to an all girls grammar school called The X County High School for Girls. Said school only took the top 3% in the catchment, so was full of high achievers and well known. On my CV I had it down as The X County High School for Girlies. It still makes chuckle now.

Laughing out loud at this, bet it made the CV stand out 😂😂

What's "Folsom"?

Missed the “O” out of Account manager once

I employ alot of teenagers and CV skills clearly isn't taught very often any more as we have had some awful ones!
One used a template and forgot to remove the [insert skill] bits. He also hadn't even read it himself because there is no way that he learnt skills such as "how to encourage a team to foster good relationships" or some similar bullshit - whilst working as a pot wash at 15 years of age.
One put in her first paragraph "I want to prove everyone wrong and show the haters I can do it if I put my mind to it". So many more I cannot think of off the top of my head.

I know someone who works outdoors in the countryside. Numerous references to this throughout, unhappily with the "o" missing.

Lovely person too, felt so sorry for them when realisation dawned.

I think I'd employ that girl tbh!

@VickyEadieofThigh - it's the Johnny Cash song.

I was given some job applications to read over when I worked in the kind of shop where you put out stock and work on a till. One of the questions was "Why do you want the job?". The applicant had written, in really tiny writing, "For my self-esteem".

I wrote I had good attention to detail. I accidently left 2 years off my CV, they asked about it, I said where it was included, they said it was not there that the dates didn't match. I was so embarrassed. I got the job though.

A hr company had done my CV since I had been in non related roles/ travelling for a while so I was annoyed a them. But it was my CV I should have looked over it more thoroughly

Oh bless them. Did they get the job?

A very shady acquaintance asked me to read her CV and help cut it down so it fit on one page. It was for an admin/office-based role so I suggested removing ‘clean uk drivers license’. She agreed and said ‘yeh ok… it isn’t even true’ 🙄

When I was hiring I rejected all CV's with photos attached.
But then we also used to throw them up in the air and the ones facing up got a read - face down went in the bin.

They didn't even get an interview. The whole application form was full of answers like that. Pretty sure they wrote as answers to some questions "I don't care" and "No idea".

Some of these are really funny.

I’ve just been recruiting and am always surprised at how many people don’t even apply for the right job. So the covering letter tells you how very excited they are to apply for some other random job.

Oh dear...

That's a shame they blew it.

Oh God yes I have had jobs where I recruited people and the worst was [email protected] 😳