What’s the WORST Job Application / Resume You've Ever Seen?
Am I the Genius?
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🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What was the biggest disaster of a CV you've ever seen? Unfortunately, the worst I've ever seen |
| 0:07.6 | was submitted by my friend who I vouched for before he submitted his resume. Now, we were all in the |
| 0:13.3 | same college classes and mostly all of the same project groups, so his resume should and could |
| 0:19.0 | have contained all the same stuff my first resume did, plus what he did in the two years out of college. |
| 0:24.6 | I didn't have a whole lot of impressive stuff being just out of college when I applied, but it was well-formatted and thought out. |
| 0:30.6 | My friend submitted a pile of jumbled cramp. |
| 0:33.6 | There were at least four different fonts, random missing bullets, no sort of organization, missing important dates and keywords. |
| 0:41.3 | We did the hiring as a team, but my boss handed me his resume and asked, |
| 0:45.3 | Is this your friend? Is this what he's capable of? |
| 0:48.3 | To be honest, I was shocked because my friend did well in school and was pretty intelligent. |
| 0:53.3 | All I could say was, |
| 0:55.0 | he's better in person and can figure stuff out, even if he's never learned it before. I got |
| 0:59.2 | him the interview, and my boss wouldn't put him past the first interview. He said it was a |
| 1:03.3 | horrible interview, and my friend showed no interest, and couldn't elaborate on any of the |
| 1:08.2 | bullet points on his resume whatsoever. It was absolutely |
| 1:11.4 | shocking and embarrassing for me. I received a resume by email from John. The email address |
| 1:18.5 | had the name as George listed. The resume was for Max, so three different names for one |
| 1:24.8 | application. As if that wasn't bad enough, it was more of a story of his life in paragraph format than |
| 1:30.8 | citing his skills. |
| 1:32.5 | That sounds like it was literally three kids in a trench coat. |
| 1:35.2 | Was worked as the boss of the business factory in the job history? |
| 1:39.7 | I had a guy applied to an online job posting, but all he sent was a picture of his |
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