Job hunting. A lot of people are doing it as lay-offs and other nice words for cutbacks continue. Many people are pulling out their resumes and curriculum vitae (CV), which is just a high-brow term for resume, and dusting them off. The problem is that our lazy writing is leading many to submit CVs which could end up losing them that perfect job.
As Murray Wardrop wrote recently at the Telegraph Online
Experts found that 94 per cent of job hunters risked missing out on vacancies through poor spelling, grammar or presentation on their CVs.
In some cases, applicants’ attempts to impress potential employers failed through the odd missed word, with phrases such as: “I was responsible for dissatisfied customers.”
He was also good enough to provide a list of some of the funnier errors that were made on CVs. So to give you a good chuckle on a Saturday here’s his pick of silly errors.
– My interests include cooking dogs and interesting people.
– As security guard my job is to pervert unauthorised people from coming onto the site
– I am a pubic relations officer
– I was responsible for dissatisfied customers
– My role involved coaching and mentioning
– I have excellent editing and poof-reading skills
– I relieved the conference manager
– I am a prooficient typist
– Socially I like to dine out with different backgrounds
– I get well with all types of people
– I was responsible for fraudulent claims
– While working in this role, I had intercourse with a variety of people
– Experienced sheet mental worker
– Highly adept at multi-tasting
– Left last four jobs only because the managers were completely unreasonable
