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Hiring managers have the thankless job of sifting through hundreds if not thousands of resumes, which most probably follow the same formula, style, and general information. The only silver lining may be the commonly accepted standard to keep a resume to less than two pages. But there are always candidates who break the mould. 

So hiring managers from across the globe shared resume stories that either made them want to reject the candidate without a second look or hire them on the spot after an internet user asked for some details. So scroll through and upvote the ones you would hire or reject, no questions asked. 

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) I was hiring for a very competitive IT role last year and one guy, who didn't have the best real world experience, added a single QR code at the bottom of his CV. I scanned it and it took me to an online portfolio, including a secure lab with simulations he'd ran, allowing ME to test scripts he'd written and also play around in his lab environment. Honestly, I'd never seen anything like it. The guy got the job and has continued to be a great fit.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) Once I received a resume that had "Raid leader for WOW in top guild of a server" this was about 9 years ago.

The other hiring managers laughed their as**s off and said this guy is a joke and they all dismissed him. Me, I asked the guy to come in for an interview and he did pretty well and I hired him.

The reason I brought the guy in for interview was because I'm an avid WOW player at that time and I know the s**t raid leaders go through. Trying to get a large number of people together, coordinate resources and rewards, getting guides together and telling people to up their healing/dps and not stand in fire. All done virtually via vent and forum postings (meaning you never met these guild members in person). You need some great leadership skills and project management. Also at that time I was dealing with a lot of people offsite so I thought this guy would be a good fit.


9 years later (I've left the company), the WOW guy I hired turned out to be great, especially in the last 9 years when corporations decide that working from home, virtual meetings is the way to go to cut cost. His skill set as a raid leader translated very well with remote project management and is now the manager of the hiring managers that laughed at his resume.

This was at a Fortune 500 financial company

TL:DR If you stand in the fire, I'm not healing your a*s.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom actually helped me learn how to 'translate' skills like this into business speak, I got lucky that way. I'm glad you saw what he meant!! People are so myopic about skills, they think you can only learn them in school, but humans always be learning and everything requires skills! RPGs are ALL about social skills.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) Someone had on their resumé “I do not complain. I’ll do what you ask and I won’t complain. I’m willing to work hard and go the extra mile...without complaining. I do not like complainers and whiners and I will never be one.” I called him immediately. He’s been here 6 years now and is easily the most reliable employee we have. He complained one time though. Another employee accidentally set him on fire and he said he didn’t want to work with that guy anymore.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was this cloistered convent. A prospective novice came in. The mother superior showed the young lady around, told her about their work, and told her it was a silent convent. There would be no talking at all. Well, the young lady entered, and lived there for five years. At the end of the five years, the mother superior calls her into the office. She told the new nun that she was doing great, and as a reward, she was allowed to say two words. After thinking a minute, the young nun said, "Food cold." The mother superior dismissed her, and she went back to work. Five more years pass, and the mother superior calls the nun in again, tells her she can say another two words. "Bed hard." After another five years, when the mother superior calls her in again, the nun says, "I quit!" The mother superior says, "Well, I'm not surprised. You've done nothing but complain since you got here!"

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Of course, these stories are all good examples of why it can be hard to reduce a person to just a few lines of text. Just as a gravestone can’t capture the full essence of a life, a resume is at best just a snapshot, yet we allow it to dictate so much of our lives and futures. The word resume itself just means “to summarize” in French, yet we allow these summaries to decide entire careers. It’s as if the back of a book would be the number one decider in whether people read it or leave it on the shelf. 

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Despite the French name, Renaissance genius, artist, and inverter Leonardo da Vinci is credited with inventing the first resume, in the form of a letter to potential employers. So just to be clear, a man who was era-defining in multiple fields still needed to write out a brief biography of himself just to maybe get a job. 
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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) I received a resume from an applicant that included a letter of recommendation from his cat. The letter was hilarious and signed with a clipart paw print. I thought it was great and wanted to bring him in, but the manager for the position wasn't as crazy about it. I guess the point is, humor in an application can work for you, but it really depends on the person.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i so wish humourous applications were a thing, the world would be lighter and the companies would probably be way more pleasant to work at.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) Had a kid applying to work at a Sam Goody as a stockboy write that he was a petroleum transference engineer for Exxon at his last job. His job was pumping gas, I hired him on the spot.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now he’s telling everyone he was a stock exchange consultant for a big name in the music industry

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) I had a resume from a potential interview candidate that listed his reason for leaving his last job as: "I found a body." No further explanation. You bet your sweet patootie I called him in for an interview. (As a strategy to get an interview, it worked!) The condensed story is that he found a body while walking the grounds at his job checking to make sure all gated areas were secure and clear of debris. When he found the body, he called the police. He was fired because he broke internal reporting protocol. He was supposed to notify his immediate supervisor and not outside authorities. It was the supervisor's responsibility to call the police.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Law trumps company rules, and I'm sure the law states dead bodies must be reported to the police immediately

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Some of the examples here listed things like how much they could bench, random physical features, and assorted fun facts. While it may seem strange, that was the norm in the last century, as a resume would be a sort of alternative or stand-in for a referral from someone who knew you. So maybe these resumes were simply doing it old school and didn’t want to conform to the monolithic professional standards everyone else follows. 

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) “I have incredible attention to dealtail”

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) I had a funny typo on a resume I once reviewed. It read:

"Assassinated the lead florist on site"

Obviously it was meant to say "assisted".

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I once saw under Achievements on a CV- "former worlds youngest person."

It made me laugh so much I gave them an interview. In the end they didn't sell themselves well enough to get the role, but it brightened my morning of filtering.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With UN estimate of around 385 000 babies born each day around the world, he held his record for about 4.5 seconds. Not bad!

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Now we can just Google a person and find out all sorts of things unless they keep a shallow digital footprint, but in the pre-internet age, it was pretty normal to send a letter or letters of introduction to get the ball rolling. We still use cover letters, but these evolved from an older tradition where a known third party would give someone a letter from a stranger in the hope that they would find some interest in them. 

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) I had one application dropped off by the applicant’s mother. She told me “If you hire him, you probably shouldn’t trust him with money.”

*update edit: I threw the application away after she turned around. I was hiring for a sales clerk position at my family bakery.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'm not sure if i like the mom's honesty or if she's a control freak trying to sabotage her son

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) I know a guy who put that he had a black belt in full contact Origami

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) Not a hiring manager but I once wrote stuff like 'able to plug in USB on first try' and 'can do up to 10 push-up before going into sleep mode' in the Additional Skills section. They later told me I was invited because they wanted to see if I really can do the first one.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can also do this with a USB. It's called looking at it and looking at the socket. XD

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These days, some applicants try to get creative, to stand out from the crowd. In some countries, the numbers are almost astronomical. In India, around 220500000 applications were filed for government jobs, of which only 722000 were recommended for the next interview steps between 2014 and 2022. So getting someone to even look at your resume can feel like a challenge in itself. 
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I asked a guy why he had periods of months and years where he didn't list jobs. He responded "I don't really like to work. Look, if you treat me well, I'll treat you well and work hard." I liked his no b******t attitude and hired him. He was a great employee.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Opposite vibes from all the employers who demand you're a 'happy little worker who loves the company'!! like yeah fr i'm a person i got a life this is rent we both know that.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) A guy put his bench, squat and deadlift numbers in his personal skills section for a bar job.

It spawned a long tradition of asking bartenders what they could bench when they applied for a job.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For a barback, bouncer, or bartender with no other bar security, that's legit.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) Guy submitted a resume claiming to be a 'ghost writer' for a local college.

In lieu of a college degree, he listed the units he wrote assignments for and the average grades his clients got.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean...it does say something about his skills...but also moral values, so...

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As a result, people have started to make multimedia applications, using videos, songs and even skywriting. Creative, yes, but we all know that constantly rewinding a video to catch a piece of information is a lot more annoying than finding it in some text. And making a hiring manager annoyed seems like a pretty bad choice, all things considered, unless the position is literally related to video editing and creation or some more creative field. 
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I was an AV Engineering Team Lead for a startup for a time. A couple of years ago, I was hiring to fill about 30 slots of a very basic AV tech position. I had about 20 applicants at the time, so if you were reasonably competent, you were in.

I got one resume and cover letter through our website from a guy who I will henceforth refer to as "the f**kup". Every third word on this thing was spelled incorrectly, punctuation was optional, and spacing was randomized. Thinking "This can't be real", I called one of the guy's references.

Oh boy, did I ever get an earful from a grumpy business owner. The f**kup in question was so much of a f**kup that he was applying for positions in my area because he was effectively blacklisted from just about every job site and labor company in his hometown - a medium sized US city with a very, very large audiovisual job market.

The reference told me that he'd told the f**kup not to hand his name/number out as a reference because the f**kup had caused more than $200,000 of damages to the reference's company's equipment the previous year. He went on to name, correctly and from memory, the other references that the f**kup likely listed on his resume - friendly competition of the reference - and told me that they would all say the same thing. So I called around. The f**kup is apparently quite the liability.

We did not end up hiring the f**kup, but I made some new business friends in another city. We've since collaborated on a couple of larger conference gigs that hit their city first and then our city afterwards so... Thanks, F**kup.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

all i can really think of is my dad's voice going 'that's how you tell someone isn't union' XD (my dad was IATSE his whole life)

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I work at an Escape Room. We once received a resume that consisted in a webpage address protected by a password, and three well-crafted riddles that we had to solve to get the password. We spent an hour doing it with two colleagues, and it included decrypting a code from a specific frame of Zodiac by David Fincher. It was simply amazing.

Sadly, we weren't hiring at the time, and she had found another job we we started hiring again.

EDIT: David Fincher, not Lynch. My bad.

EDIT 2: since I'm receiving a lot of answers including pieces of advice on what we should have done, here's some important precisions:

* No, we couldn't have hired her on the whim. You can't create work from nothing in Escape Rooms. We have 6 rooms, we need 1 Game Master per room when it's running, that's all. Our building is full, we can't add other rooms, so we don't need to hire until someone leaves.

* No, we won't fire someone to hire that person. First, because we're living in a civilized country that doesn't allow people to get fired without any reason. Second, because firing someone that way isn't how you keep people motivated and invested, and our boss knows that.

* The fact that she knew how to create riddles doesn't mean she would have made a great hire anyway. We're already 13, and we **all** know how to make riddles, that's part of the job. We also all have other skills that contribute to that job. What made her application special is the way she made it, reflecting her motivation, not her skills per se.

* No, we shouldn't have hired her to design a room. First, because we didn't have any room to design, our building was full, and it was more than a year until we needed to create a room. Second, because we already have designers (remember, we're 13, plus the bosses, and we all have the skills she had). Third, because designing a room is a 3-4 weeks jobs, not a full-time one. Fourth, because it requires other skills than simply "creating riddles", and neither you and I know if she had them. Fifth, because you simply doesn't hire a newbie to design your next $20.000-$30.000 room that will be 1/6th of your company revenue for the next 3 to 6 years, that's absolutely nonsensical.

* To the people saying we're idiots for not having hired her: you know nothing.

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I had a job interview like this for a borders. Manager loved me but they didn't have the budget to hire me. He praised me to high heaven to my face, though, and I'll always carry that positive feeling.

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I had a candidate who worked in couseling in the past, mostly with kids who had been through trauma. They had a line on their resume that said:

"Expert in child kidnapping"

I had to at least give them an interview because I understood the intent but the wording was just hilariously unfortunate.

Edit: For those seeking clarity, he was an expert in kidnapping *cases*.

No, he didn't get the job. Nice guy, but not a good fit for the role. :)

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) I got my first IT job because I put in additional skills modifying Fallout 3 using GECK. I just loaded custom packs and got them to work and they gave me the job miraculously even tho I was underqualified

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, I am a BIG-TIME game modder, especially in Skyrim. Never thought anyone would take me seriously if I added that to my resume. Right now I'm working on merging several large NPC replacer mods for the Good Old Games version of Skyrim.

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Recruiter here. I have a few:

* Resume - "hire me lol"
* Video interview with another candidate, she was in a hospital bed and just gave birth to her son prior to her interview. HIRED
* Another video interview, the guy was chugging a tall boy Coors Lights...

Edit: Just to add little to the second story, she was looking for additional income for her move. It was a part-time, temporary job with very easy work. She was a very bubbly person.

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In response to our posting for a software developer:

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• 22 years experience as full-stack web developer
• BA in Organizational Management
• Spent too much time on the computer during childhood

He was hired within the week.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) “I would like to work at your factory”
I don’t have a factory. Read the f*****g job description.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) Bad emails. When interviewing for a professional position and your contact email is 69SMOKAHGURL420BLAZING it a terrible way to start the resume.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) Second language was Klingon.
Too bad the guy was a total a*s during his interview

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What did you expect from a Klingon? Suavity worthy of Fred Astaire?

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not a hiring manager, but I was working at a job and my roommate wanted to apply. on the application he wrote "can make 3 minute ramen in 2:50"

he got the interview

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) Hiring a software engineer. Among his impressive list of skills were Notepad and Wordpad.

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We used to do this, we would reject on a faux pas. Then we realized we were chewing through good candidates who didn't have the money to use a professional writing service. If we are hiring for a developmental role (someone we expect needs to grow) then we shouldn't hold them to the standard we would expect *after* they have developed. We decided to start picking resume's for experience we think we want and ignore minor mistakes or odd formatting choices. We have even re-interviewed people who we think just had an 'off' day. Now, we have to do this because qualified candidates for our positions are fairly rare so we have to be a little more flexible.

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I remember when a company for which I worked had been bought out and they brought in a service to help us with resumes and job searching. The presenter told us very clearly that on a the first pass though a stack of resumes people are looking for a reason to reject you and you need to be flawless to get through that. Only on the second or third pass they are looking for a reason to interview you.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) It was 14 pages...

ETA: finance position with 5-10 years experience. There’s only so many different ways you can describe finance responsibilities - and summarizing is a skill. Dude never pitched for the interview.

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This woman had her preschool and elementary school graduation dates on her resume. It was a no from me.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) Someone sent over their CV written entirely in the papyrus font from Microsoft word. May as well have gone all out and used windings.

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Had a résumé come in from a guy we fired about 2 years previously. Had a gap in his employment where the time was he had been with us, so not even like he didn’t realise!

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Having “attention to detail” listed under skills followed by spelling and grammatical errors throughout the CV. My favourite!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or even 'proofreading' listed as a skill, followed be typos

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) Hiring for retail. Two all time favorites:

"Experienced at stalking the cooler."

"Responsible for closing paperwork after each s**t."

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while working at a café someone left a cv with a previous experience in preparing corpses for burial. Yes, our clients were old, yes, there was a church and a cemetery in front of us, but come on now

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) I was on a hiring committee for a college instructor. The candidate was asked to provide a statement of commitment to the college and its mission. An entire paragraph was plagiarized - copied and pasted from a website. I noticed that the writer's voice drastically changed, so I pasted a sentence into Google and immediately found the source. He did not get an interview.

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I helped a buddy revise his resume. I formatted it and organized it, but I left some spots bolded and told him he had to fill them out. Under one of his jobs I said "add some b******t with fancy adjectives here". He didn't revise the resume and applied to a ton of jobs with that line left in there. I have never laughed so hard.

Edit: sorry I know I am not a hiring manager, but I really wish I could have seen the reaction of the hiring managers that received his resume.

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Two guys in my office had done safety documentation for one program and wanted to expand it to another program - they'd spent months and beaucoup overtime to work on it. Then they both went on vacation and I was called in to see what I could do to finish it. Even the safety documentation for the first program was substandard but they effectively had *nothing* for the new documentation. So, I built it all up so there were hazards and critical items lists for all aspects in the format for the new program. Because the original documentation was lacking, there were places where I put "Need XX information here" and such throughout the documentation. SIX MONTHS later (after more long hours and overtime) they presented the new documentation to the new project and EVERY SINGLE ITEM I'd noted that needed to be filled in still had my original note in place. Mind boggling.

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For the love of god, triple check the spelling of any names. The number of CV's that simply go straight into the bin because they can't spell my, or my company name correctly is too damn high.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes me wonder what their name is. Sure, the company name should be correct on an application, but when I spell my name for somebody over the phone and can tell they feel unsure, I tell them to get creative, I'm used to it. YOu can feel the relief through the line.

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Resumes are a Go/No Go for whether I will look at you as a serious candidate. I'm not using them to determine who is the best candidate. If I'm going to consider you seriously you need to make it easy for me to know if you can do the job you applied for. As such, resumes should be the following:

* **Concise** - The resume is a place to summarize your experience and qualifications so keep it short. ~~Most people should never go over one page on a CV~~. If you're 35 and you still have your high school extracurricular activities on your resume, its time to trim the fat. If you have a four page CV its going in the bin.
* **Orderly** - All of the information should be organized clearly so I can look at it and know your qualifications. People read in an "F" pattern. As such, the most important info should be at the top with major bullet points down the left side.
* **Honest** - Don't post it if you didn't do it. I'm okay with stretching the truth, but if you say you were a QA engineer, you best be able to back that up with some knowledge.
* **Professional** - The CV answers the question "What have I done and what can I do?" not the question "Who am I?" As such, it should be factual not charismatic. Use your cover letter to show your personality.
* **SPELL CHECKED** - Holy c**p, spell check your work. Unless you are writing your CV in Notepad, spell check is automatic. If you are ignoring the red lines, then you aren't the kind of person I want working for me.
* **PROOF READ** - After you write it, put it down for a day and look at it the next. If you proof read something immediately after writing it, you will read what you think you wrote, not what you actually wrote.

Things that should be towards the top:

* Your name and contact info
* Your experience
* Your education
* Your certifications

Things to put towards the bottom:

* Awards and recognition
* Skills

Consider dropping:

* Hobbies and interests

Edit: Thanks for the feedback everyone. The way I wrote it originally made it look like I took a hard line on the one page limit. Two pages doesn't put you in the no bin, but I do expect you to be able to summarize your experience well.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tip for proofing is to change the font. It helps your brain 'reset' and catch errors. Remember to change it back though! XD

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#38

Someone sent us a 20 minute long video why they wanted to work with us. Not hired, just too much.

Another applicant explained her family situation honestly in the cover letter, she fit our culture, and as well as amazing skills, we hired her.

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A few years ago I bought an already working franchise location in the next town over, which is a very small and quiet town. The previous owner let go his employee with a severance so I didn't have to take over her contract. Being my new and only store, I decided to work by myself until getting settled and hire help if I seemed to need it.

The first day I opened the store, about an hour after opening, the former employee comes by to introduce herself and drop a resume. I tell her that I'll consider it since she worked there for about 5 years mostly on her own (previous owner was not a hands-on boss) and put it in a drawer. During the rest of the day, I noticed people standing on the sidewalk looking in, and after doing that they came in and made a purchase. After 4 or 5 people did this, I asked a woman what made her look before coming in, and she said "oh I wouldn't have come in if that red-headed c**t was still working here".

Needless to say, I put a "under new management" sign on the door, using the back of the c**t's CV and no one else looked before coming in that day :-D

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Not so much the content of the application, but what was on the application.

A handprint.

It was for a food handling position and he was grungy enough to leave a print from where he held down the paper to write on it. Instant no.
Looking back, yeah, there was a chance he'd have been fine, we could have taught proper hand washing and all that, but at the time we declined to grant an interview.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, if he hadn't figured out proper hand washing by the time he was old enough to work he will never figure it out.

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Job Interviewers Reveal Resume Moments That Either Got The Person Immediately Hired Or Immediately Rejected (30 Answers) A guy was said we had to hire him because he had a disability and it would be discrimination if we didn't. He wasn't hired, he called the CEO a few times to complain. We went thru it at least 3 x over the course of multiple hirings.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And that´s why I hate when companies, or even worse, the state, implements quotas you have to fulfill, to hire a certain % of people from certain groups. What if you don´t find fitting candidates? What if no fitting candidate applies for the position? What if their skills and experiences are fitting, But they are just awful people, personality wise? Are companies supposed to leave positions open just in case someone from one these groups comes along? Even if they desperately need them filled?

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The hand he used to give me his resume was tattooed with a swastika.

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"I have Ak-47, killed 7 thiefs" - security guard job.

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I once had someone indicate that they had 8 years of experience with a specific, very unique, product. That product had only been around for 2 years and initial development had only begun 4 years ago. When asked about it, they claimed that they were on the development team and were the person that came up with the product. I had been on the 6 person team since it's inception and knew everyone involved.

Also, had someone list a previous position from two years ago on their resume at the company I work for. It was the exact position I currently held, same organization, appeared to be almost copy pasted from my job description. I had been in that position for almost 5 years.

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I was working for a small digital agency and we were looking for designers and illustrators - general multi skilled creative types.

The boss wanders in with a sly grin and a big folder. It was from a guy who wanted a job. I came over and he started flicking through it. Page after page of sexy cartoons. Lots of them furry type stuff. Boob, butts, lips, figures intertwined, lots of detailed musculature.

So I was like "Well it's quite good for what it is... but what else is there? Is there another section?"

Nope. Nothing else. Just a folder completely full of semi-pornographic cartoon people and sexy anthropomorphised animals.





Edit: He was not hired. It wasn't because of the cartoons, it was because it was *all* just those cartoons. Would have liked to see some commercial applications of illustration, or something showing he could work to requirements, or a variety of work showing different styles. Also this was 15ish years ago.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm glad you recognised the skill, but yeah agreed it's important to push your creative range in a job that involves visual arts. If all you can do is figure drawing and not, say, still lifes or landscapes, then you're too limited for the position OP described.

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I once received a resume written in a size 60 font.
It was just one page..

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If you lasted less than 6 months at every job you've ever had I am probably not going to hire you

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a very poor way to determine whether a person would be a good fit for the post. Find out WHY they only worked in places for 6 months or less.

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I had someone hand me a resume with the html code of a porn url mixed in mid-way through. I guess he was watching porn while updating his resume and somehow dragged in a link. Guess he didn't proof read it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can you imagine their joy at getting the job " Yes, yes, yes, yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, YES, YES,YES, OMG YESSSSSSS"

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I have several CV's that will never make the cut. I keep them in a non GDPR proof binder hidden out of view. I work as an IT recruiter.

* Normal CV on the job site. Junior profile, 18 years old , just finished school. Pretty normal CV, except , at the bottom, he writes that he has a small d**k and likes guys. The CV goes back and forth in the office. Eventually we decide to call him and ask why he put that on his CV. Turns out he had to make the CV for school, left his PC open and one of his class mates thought it was funny to add that to his profile...
* A CV with a picture a man in only his boxers. No headshot, just his abs , boxers and legs. We did not call the guy.
* Several CV's with people ranting against the goverment, religion or anything else. Obvious proof of mental disabilities. People writing things such as "I will do the time for the crime I may or may not have comitted". I haven't called any of them.
* Cover letters with the wrong company name on it. So many cover letters with the wrong company on it. Recruiters will forget to change your name when sending you an inmail , applicants will forget to change the name when applying. We really need to get rid of mandatory cover letters. I'll still call them if their profile is decent.
* People being open about just putting their CV online so they can keep their unemployment benefits. At least they don't waste my time.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SkekVi, you might wanna reflect on your persistent use of assumed discriminations. You throw that shít out so flippantly and petulantly, it reminds me of dealing with those types of díckheads who claim racism anytime they don't get what they want.

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Hired for a junior UX role. An applicant's CV header was "Your bubbly UX designer", which was good enough to warrant an interview. In the interview, when we asked what was their dream job if they we in a completely different area, they answered "Juventus manager".

We knew she was a keeper.

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Someone had spelled “of” incorrectly on their entire CV. “Ov”

I almost wanted to interview them just to see how they remembered to breathe

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It drives me crazy when people write "should/could/would OF" instead of "should/could/would'VE" as in "should HAVE". Mostly because I swear I've never seen it written like that online or offline until about 10 years ago when it suddenly appeared everywhere, and I'm convinced some person online (YouTuber/blogger/influencer) started this nonsense. It seems the applicant got confused, too.

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I've seen resumes that DIDN'T HAVE A NAME ON THEM.

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Not a hiring manager but was reviewing resume's to be forwarded on. It was more about what wasn't there. These were primarily people who were trying to transition from IT to IT security. I saw plenty of resumes stuffed with IT certs and whatnot, but barely any of them took any time to go get qualifications for the field they wanted to work in. You've got to realize you have to get someone to pick you out of all the candidates. You need to show them that you actually have a drive and a passion for it. When I got my first security job, the hiring manager told me that what interested him was that I had a bunch of security certs, that told him this wasn't just any sysadmin applying at whatever. Now of course my passion came out in the interview and secured me the job, but to get there I had to get noticed.

My advice, if you're trying to transition, I don't care so much about what you used to do as much as what you can do in the future, and your resume needs to speak to that.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another tip for pivoting jobs. Tell me in your cover letter how you think your experience might fit with the new role. Let's me know you understand how to transfer your skills and that you have an understanding of what the job younare looking for entails.

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Had someone apply for our position that was a hairdresser.

The position was for a nurse. They said they wanted to "try out the medical field"

They didn't get the job.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL... I recently hired a sales manager. The range of resumes I got was amazing. The funeral director was probably my favorite one.

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One time I interviewed a guy an went with another candidate, maybe a week after the Interview I received a card via usps that said “Thank You” with a note that said thank you for the opportunity to interview for the position...

I was taken aback by it as in all my years I’d never received anything like that... it made him stick in my mind and I reached out to him the next time a position came open and he got the job...

to this day he’s the only person who’s ever sent me a thank you card after being rejected for a position

***Fixed the Canada Typo... my bad, sometimes my phone thinks it knows better than I lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anytime I do an interview, I always send a thank you note/email. Always

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I was a hiring manager at a major "hipster" clothing retailer, now I work in manufacturing and I mostly oversee production and logistical matters but I do handle the hiring and HR for my team which ranges from 3-5 people. In both fields I've found that anyone who worked for In n' Out for more than a year is a solid hire. The way they train people and the sense of urgency and pride in work that they instill in their employees is fantastic. I almost feel like one of those parasitic insects that makes another species do the hard work of child rearing when I score a former in n out employee.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Disney also trains people really well. Solid hire if someone worked for disney for ANY length of time, bc you get trained FIRST before going on the job.

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#57

Was looking for a casual sales person, this 18yo put a selfie of her which was taken in a car showing alot of cleavage. Not what I was looking for. I guess she was hoping I was a middle aged single man.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly I've been in places that only hired college students and both times it was the most rancid vibe. Like ew what kind of ageism bs.

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One resume read "expert in 'indoor horticulture'..." Indoor horticulture was in quotes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's nice have a hobby that pays itself. Was he ever busted for his (likely illegal) plantation? /s

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I applied with [this cover letter](http://i.imgur.com/HMA3I4B.png) and the subject line "Copywriter: Will Work for Beer" to a job that I was underqualified for. It caught the eye of the headhunter for the ad agency and was enough to get me an interview. Shortly after that I was hired and ended up working there for a few years.

I remember writing that letter and feeling frustrated because I wasnt hearing back from any of the places I was applying, so I said, "F**k it, I'm gonna write one that is more me." However, this probably wouldn't work everywhere, but it fit the culture of the agency. Plus the job listing said that I would be working for beer brands as clients and that free beer was a perk of the job.

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I was interviewing people for an IT company. Dude put experience with “skuzzy” on his resume. (For non techies, SCSI is a type of hard drive pronounced as he wrote it but never in a million years written that way.)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Small Computer System Interface, was a parallel interface system mostly used by hard drives and other peripherals hardware to communicate with a host computer. It was complex, hard to troubleshoot and generally hated by everyone. Thanks to SATA it all but disappeared in the last decade

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Generally, if someone misuses apostrophes, spells vendor names in all caps or includes religious/political statements on their CV, I fire the recruiter that sent the document to me.

In one case, the "CV" I was presented with was a 30 slide PowerPoint presentation featuring JAVA in the centre of every other slide accompanied with clipart inspired by the first 32 bit release of After Dark.

Immediately that was a no hire.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's also just safer if you categorically turn down people who disclose that kind of personal information, bc it's like... dude that's protected personal demographic information, don't give employers that!!

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Not hiring, but one time a dude had "excessive masturbation" listed as a hobby. Not recommended, unless you want to hire for a product tester in certain branches.

Edit: Read it from another one's post. He had his CV proof read by one of his friends. Always proof read your friends' edits, folks!

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I once rejected a candidate because she dotted her “i” with little hearts

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aw jaysus...that c**p..one knows they're childishly insane...🤪 not fun to be around...in my experience!!!!

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Not on a resume but during the first contact with them they asked how tough our drug testing was.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Many companies don't even screen for Marijuana in drug testing anymore. They're looking for hard drugs for the most part. They don't care if employees smoke pot, as long as they aren't doing it during work hours or coming to work after smoking. It's just doesn't isn't as taboo as it used to be. However, this doesn't apply to certain types of jobs, like medical professions, teaching

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I've told this story before, but it's one of my favorites.

I work in an analytical field where programming and mathematical skills are pretty important. I had a candidate for a lead analyst position submit a 9 page resume (which was already a deal breaker). The last page was entirely dedicated to "Skills and Attributes". The highlights were:

* Extremely beautiful
* Highly skilled in math (obviously)

The candidate was an adjunct professor at a local tech school. They had a Master's degree in statistics from a mid-level state university. So yes, they were qualified - but definitely not as remarkably qualified as they thought they were.

The candidate did get an interview, believe it or not. But they weren't hired.

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My manager once told me that he started calling the numbers on references immediately after someone left the room and the interview had gone well. More than once the candidates phone would ring as they passed reception.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most people would still have their phone on vibrate or off completely during an interview. I'm calling BS on this one.

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Not a hiring manager, but for years I was applying for jobs with a high school qualification for art & design listed as

fart and design

Got 2 jobs in that time and countless rejections.

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I saw this asked before, and said in one I had a resume state for work experience be "hacker - The Internet"

They also stated they've been both "hired and fired for hacking various things." and have "never been convicted of a computer crime."...

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Spelling errors throughout will usually have me going to the next one. If you’re not detailed oriented in this first impression, my assumption is your work will look like this as well. No one has time to review your work for accuracy. People always make mistakes and that’s how you learn, but a résumé should be free of obvious errors.

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Bad clip art of a bald eagle. No idea why, just was in the header of the resume.

Common one that bugs me: you misspelled your alma mater's name. It's not uncommon for colleges to go by shortened names (example would be MIT). While the correct form is the long name, I can accept the shortened common usage one. I have sat on some hiring committees where folks didn't realize the name of the prestigious school listed was the specific program from a well known college, although I think that says more about previous hiring committees decisions...

To account for common knowledge not always being common I can accept the common usage name of your college/university even if it makes me cringe... But I cannot accept when you just mess up the name altogether. You paid that place a decent chunk of money to get a degree there, and spent years of your life there, I think you can be bothered to know their name.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Use the full name of the college the first time. After that, using the initials can sometimes be ok.

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Your resume is no place to be funny or cute. I can't tell you how many different versions of "stay at home mom" I've seen. Just be open and honest about it. Saying "domestic engineer" or something of that nature comes off dumb and dishonest.

Edit for clarification: I'm not saying personality is a bad thing. But in professional settings, a cover letter or the interview itself are better places to showcase said personality.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Something that irks me to no end: More than once I've first-hand witnessed people, supposedly professionals that work for agencies meant to help people find work, advise job-seekers to put sh*t like "domestic engineer" on resumes/CVs.

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Someone put CEO at “Stay At Home Mom LLC” with her address and phone number on it. I know being a mom is a hard job but it was a little irrelevant to the position and made it seem like she didn’t take applying seriously....

Also we had an ex employee reapply to our business, claiming he had experience managing at our location and left voluntarily for personal reasons...he was a bottom line employee who got fired for drinking on the job. I guess he thought new management wouldn’t notice?

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Not a hiring manager but my dad is. He trashes every single resume that mentions a criminal history, and I just think that’s really sad

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is sad. And short-sighted. Someone did their time. Let them get back on their feet and turn over a new leaf d@mn.

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#74

Every referee has a sentence or two about how we shouldn't call them because they 'parted on bad terms' or it had been a while.

Some applicants listed referees who, when called, barely remembered working with the person.

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I was hiring for a research position and made it clear (I thought) that the data was from surveys, focus groups, that sort of thing. Got a lot of resumes from people who had none of the listed requirements but it was the ones who had some of them that confused me - I'm pretty sure your skills in small-mammal dissection are not going to be any help in a words-based role, maybe re-read your resume *before* you send it in?

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#76

If the person has had an excessive amount of jobs. If I am going to invest the time and cost of hiring and educating a person I want to be comfortable knowing they will be around a long time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this attitude doens't work anymore with how jobs treat you....

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#77

Not me but my best friend is, a woman put "very good at selling bread" and "not good at selling fish"
Je didn't took her because she wasn't qualified anyway but still funny tho.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She couldn't sell the fish, but she knew how to lay it on the slab and say "fillet."

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#78

They were convicted 3 times of attempted murder i immediately hired them

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