Don’t drop a CV clanger (From Penarth Times)

Don’t drop a CV clanger

10:33am Thursday 2nd April 2009

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As today is April Fools’ Day you would be forgiven for thinking the silly mistakes from CVs below were jokes.

Unfortunately they’re very real clangers from CVs studied by Corinne Mills, personal career management with www.monster.co.uk, which needless to say, did not result in jobs:

• My job involved processing clams
• As security guard my job is to pervert unauthorised people from coming onto the site
• I am a pubic relations officer
• I am matured
• My interests include cooking dogs and interesting people
• I was responsible for dissatisfied customers
• My role involved coaching and mentioning
• I relieved the conference manager
• I am patient, organised, reliable, truthful, honest, confident and trustworthy, but most of all, punctual
• I made the deserts
• I am a prooficient typist
• Socially I like to dine out with different backgrounds
• I was responsible for fraudulent claims
• While working in this role, I had intercourse with a variety of people

These mistakes were all made by job seekers applying for professional, in some cases high-level positions. The moral of this story is that it doesn’t matter how well-qualified you are, badly written CVs mean closed doors.

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