“One applicant mentioned how much he could bench and the characters he played in high school theatre.
He was in his mid-to-late twenties.”
Here are some of the most-upvoted responses:
1.
“I once received a resume in the mail that had no telephone number, address, or email.
He called a few days later to ask why he hadn’t received any reply.”
“I asked him to get a copy of his resume so we could review it together.
After a long pause, he said, ‘Aww, fuck!’
and hung up.”
u/chili555
2.
“Okay, I was a writing tutor at the college level for 10 years.
We also helped graduates of the university.
I swear I am not making this up.”
He reported that he’d been looking for work for a while, with no luck.
u/Foodoglove
3.
“One applicant mentioned how much he could bench and the characters he played in high school theatre.
He was in his mid-to-late twenties.”
u/ethnj
4.
“This guy in an entry-level position he was 19 I think got his resume through fine.
But then, his emergency contact info read ‘Name - Mum.
Relationship - Good’.”
“…So like if we called your mum, and you were hurt, she’d care?”
u/Seattlepowderhound
5.
She had no degree or relevant experience, but we needed a receptionist."
We didn’t have any other applicants.
The job was hers to lose.
She didn’t know that, so she brought her A game.
‘Engineers aren’t very organised people and I can keep them in line.’
‘I have better social skills than engineers do.’
I am not paraphrasing.
I was just like, ‘You know I’m an engineer, right?’
She seemed pretty sure she could move up and be an engineer in a year or so.
That is not at all a thing in my field, but she was absolutely sure it was.
She didn’t listen, and submitted it.
She even listed me as a reference.
‘I’ve got what engineers don’t have, 10 years of experience!’
became the office joke for years to come.
The lady said 10 years is the limit.'
u/ifnotmewh0
6.
This was on his LinkedIn profile as well."
u/subtlelikeawreckball
7.
“see to it you attach the right file.
I once had somebody attach his court summons for a DUI charge.
u/Jen_the_Green
8.
“I had a dude turn in his tool with black marker lines redacting all of his info.
“He did not, in fact, get an interview.”
u/octopornopus
9. u/HellbendingSnototter
10.
“This guy put a Tinder bio at the head of his resume.
“I do IT work…”
u/KhaosElement
11.
“When I was in high school I worked in a shoe store at the mall.
Yes, really.”
“I wanted to interview her, just to see what she’d actually say in person.
My manager vetoed that, sadly.”
u/berecyntia
12.I have a friend who managed a shoe store.
She received an app that said ‘I play ukulele, sort of’ under the ‘skills’ section.
“I think about it on a regular basis and it was probably 10 years ago.”
u/keastis
13.
“We were hiring a CFO and Googling their name revealed an SEC complaint for a nine-figure fraud.
See you never.”
u/withurwife
14. u/tangcameo
15.
“This guy got recommended for a lab technician job in my company, so we met with him.
“The document was a letter of recommendation from his CC physics teacher.
A glowing assessment of the candidate which greatly conflicted with my assessment based on his behavior.
He did not get the job.”
u/DLS3141
16.
“This was when I managed an Aldi store and he was applying as an associate.
u/Moist-Pickle-2736
17.
“I had an program for a management position at a public library.
“We got an app from one person whose only ‘management experience’ was running a K-pop fan club.
Another person spelled the library’s name incorrectly.”
u/ca77ywumpus
18.
“The worst I’ve seen is from a girl named Clairfe.
What an interesting name, is it Irish?
u/Time-Cover-8159
19.
“An applicant with food service experience applied for our entry-level call centre job.
She put as her daily duties, ‘wept and moped at the end of every shift.'”
“Im not gonna lie, I hired her and she was fine.
I worked food service and was like ‘wheres the lie’?”
u/skcup
20.
“They mentioned their ‘Atention too detail.'”
u/rich_cabeza
21. u/MagicBez
22.
“I had someone once put ‘mom to child actor’ on her resume as a qualification.
She listed that she homeschooled on set and managed their schedule and things of that nature.”
He came and asked for it back when he wasnt hired.”
u/Roopchanchillin
23.
“I once got a resume written in crayon.”
u/hyperiongate
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