Careerbuilder has some interesting columns tucked away in the employee advice column. I was looking for information on job postings, and ran across this column of alleged "real resumes" found online.
It stems from a survey of HR Managers sent around the country last April, but I found it everywhere, as CareerBuilder managed to spread it as an article to CNN, Women's Wall Street, and a dozen other places online.
Still, it's funny.
- Candidate included that he spent summers on his family's yacht in Grand Cayman.
- Candidate attached a letter from her mother.
- Candidate used pale blue paper with teddy bears around the border.
- Candidate explained a gap in employment by saying it was because he was getting over
the death of his cat for three months.
- Candidate specified that his availability was limited because Friday, Saturday and Sunday
was "drinkin' time."
- Candidate included a picture of herself in a cheerleading uniform.
- Candidate drew a picture of a car on the outside of the envelope and said it was the hiring
manager's gift.
- Candidate's hobbies included sitting on the levee at night watching alligators.
- Candidate included the fact that her sister once won a strawberry eating contest.
- Candidate explained that he works well nude.
- Candidate explained an arrest by stating, "We stole a pig, but it was a really small pig."
- Candidate included family medical history.
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It's drinkin' time." What's wrong with that? That's a plus in half the companies I worked for over the years.
My favorite resumes were always the ones that were 12 pages long (engineers) and formatted in block paragraphs. Then when you sit down with the guy, he goes through every entry to let you know that it's all true.
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