strangest thing you've seen on a CV?

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I know this probably won't apply to a lot of people but what's the strangest thing you've seen on a CV?

We've just had someone in who's CV states they are "99% Trustworthy!"...

My initial reaction was just "WHAT?"
 

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sitting going over a pile of CVs at this very moment for a night shift admin position,

i have a very KEN eye for detail.

5 people from outside the EU that want to work in our office in Glasgow part time,

lots of people wanting to take on a second job (and i mean most of our applicants are wanting an additional 25-30 hours on top of a full time position elsewhere)

and someone has also sent us a blank sheet of A4 no contact details just blank A4
 
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So many people's CVs are 4-5 pages long, listing technologies and specifics about jobs from a bygone era. I don't particularly care if you used Windows 3.1, it's 2019 - keep it brief and cater your CV to the role your applying for.

Mostly though, recruiters... I despise you all :D stop changing people's CVs, stop telling them bad info and stop sending us crap.
 
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I get CVs from Indian developers all the time who state their work experiences using metric measurements eg. 4.3 years. Is that four years and three months or four months?
 
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my favourite ever was guy who had a lot of his skills based around photoshop/visualisation stuff and he had attached some samples of work in a pdf - the pdf had a nice cover page then a load of blank pages with a caption saying "image removed to reduce file size" - genius!
 
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I get CVs from Indian developers all the time who state their work experiences using metric measurements eg. 4.3 years. Is that four years and three months or four months?

I stopped bothering being that precise on my CV a long time ago - no one cares. If they do care I'm probably better off working elsewhere anyhow.
 
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So many people's CVs are 4-5 pages long, listing technologies and specifics about jobs from a bygone era. I don't particularly care if you used Windows 3.1, it's 2019 - keep it brief and cater your CV to the role your applying for.

Mostly though, recruiters... I despise you all :D stop changing people's CVs, stop telling them bad info and stop sending us crap.

Recruiters only exist to give estate agents people to look down upon.
 
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A lady once wrote this under hobbies

"Nature and Badger enthusiast"

We stopped looking at hobbies after that - she got the job but left shortly after due to being a total headcase.

Tbh it was written in the stares after the badger bit.
 
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