strangest thing you've seen on a CV?

dowie · 31 Jan 2019 at 09:05

AHarvey said:
I once had a lad work for me in one of the warehouses. He was 28 years old with 34 years of work experience when we added up how many years he told us he'd worked in each field...

Could that not be from rounding up to the nearest year and/or experience gained concurrently?

GSXR Gaz Mc · 31 Jan 2019 at 10:37

think i need to update my cv with some funny bits

malachi · 31 Jan 2019 at 12:32

GSXR Gaz Mc said:
think i need to update my cv with some funny bits

I might do the same! This is probably were I am failing.

Hades · 31 Jan 2019 at 15:33

It gives me a fantastic idea. I'm going to setup another email address and start sending in comedy fake CV's to jobs

I did once have an agent call me up about the exact job I'd just resigned from. Apparently my CV was an absolutely perfect match for the role. Surprising that

Terminal_Boy · 31 Jan 2019 at 15:40

BongoHunter said:
Someone claiming they had for example 10 years experience in a technology that's only been around for 5 or something similar seams to be quite common

You get that a lot in telecoms. During the phone screening, it usually transpired that they barely understand the acronym for technology X that they've claimed to be a guru in, let alone how it works.

Meridian · 31 Jan 2019 at 20:46

A photo of the (male) applicant. Wearing a shirt with about four top buttons undone. And a gold medallion.

GSXR Gaz Mc · 2 Feb 2019 at 09:52

30 years experience of dealing with stupid people

Lopéz · 2 Feb 2019 at 15:03

dowie said:
Could that not be from rounding up to the nearest year and/or experience gained concurrently?

That's a serious bit of rounding up to cancel out 16-18 years of a 28 year old's life!

dowie · 2 Feb 2019 at 15:43

Lopéz said:
That's a serious bit of rounding up to cancel out 16-18 years of a 28 year old's life!

Depends on context, you can gain experience concurrently too. It isn't really clear what the other poster was referring to re: tallying up the years of experience the candidate has mentioned for various fields.

AHarvey · 4 Feb 2019 at 12:08

dowie said:
Depends on context, you can gain experience concurrently too. It isn't really clear what the other poster was referring to re: tallying up the years of experience the candidate has mentioned for various fields.

It wasn't rounding, he sat there in front of a group of lads telling us all the jobs he'd had in different fields and how long he worked there. I just added up the years as he was bs'ing his way through.

dowie · 4 Feb 2019 at 12:10

AHarvey said:
It wasn't rounding, he sat there in front of a group of lads telling us all the jobs he'd had in different fields and how long he worked there. I just added up the years as he was bs'ing his way through.

So he didn't even have a CV?

AHarvey · 4 Feb 2019 at 12:12

dowie said:
So he didn't even have a CV?

He was in for his interview, we got chatting before he went in. I was shocked when he got the job but he was a hard worker to be fair, just full of hot air

WillyNelson · 20 Feb 2019 at 12:24

Hades said:
I did once have an agent call me up about the exact job I'd just resigned from. Apparently my CV was an absolutely perfect match for the role. Surprising that

Yup. I was looking for a new job and an agency speculatively sent my CV to my then boss. Luckily we were under notice of redundancy (buy out & relocation) so it wasn't an issue. I did have a strong work with the agency about it though.

ttaskmaster · 20 Feb 2019 at 13:17

Steedie · 26 Feb 2019 at 10:33

I once had a CV sent over to me that had a grading system for their technical skills, with no indication as to what was good and what was not so good. It was even a logical scale like A1 or E5 etc, it was really random and made no sense

Manbatius · 4 Mar 2019 at 22:25

Just woke the wife up as I was laughing so much at this thread!