Recruiting Gone Wrong - My Crappy Resume

Recruiting Gone Wrong - My Crappy Resume MyCrappyResume is the place for you to share your professional HR (mis)adventures, for the amusement and betterment of all cubicle-kind. Post that story of your nightmare interview, the clueless applicant, or that time you accidentally forwarded your fantasy football stats instead of your resume. Some of the gems are [one_half last=no]Clubbing as Hobby? I read through a CV that had included clubbing in their hobbies/ interests section. I think thats not a very professional thing to add anyway, but particularly not for the ISLAMIC development bank, based out of Saudi Arabia![/one_half] Sorry gotta rush! During the interview, an alarm clock went off from a candidates brief case. He took it out, shut it off, apologized and said he had to leave for another interview. [one_half last=no]Deal with what! I was interviewing a young man for a customer service position. He had worked at a hair salon, and in describing his experience there, he said, I had to deal with a lot of old biddies. Needless to say, thats where his candidacy ended.[/one_half] [one_half last=yes]Boss Jokes my boss-to-be pulled out my resume with an angry look, and asked “WHAT is this?!” It was a page full of random characters, from copyright symbols to Pounds Sterling, with my name in 72-pt font across the top. I was horrified; he started laughing. He made it up![/one_half] [button color=orange link=http://mycrappyresume.com target=_blank]Read More from MCR[/button] 0