What not to put in your CV

[ariich]

Seeing millahh's interview advice thread resurrected reminded me of a great article I read recently with a selection of terrible, but real, things from CV's. Please, never do any of these.

• Skills: Strong Work Ethic, Attention to Detail, Team Player, Self Motivated, Attention to Detail
• highly skilled in BLT activity
• Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year
• Qualifications: Twin sister has accounting degree
• Hobbies: enjoy cooking Chinese and Italians
• Skills: Written communication = 3 years; verbal communication = 5 years
• Salary requirements: The higher the better
• Dear Sir or Madman,
• Hope to hear from you, shorty
• 1 year old marketing executive
• Skills: I am a rabid typist
• attention to detial
• Manage steak holders
• I am an expert in prof reading
• Here are my qualifications for you to overlook
• Develop and recommend an annual operating expense fudget
• Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain operation.
• I never take anything for granite
• I’m a hard worker, etc
• oh and the candidate who wrote ‘kissing my girlfriend’ under his hobbies

Source: https://thegapster.co.uk/2013/02/12/20-funny-cv-fails/

[rumborak]

We had a candidate once who put down "pool hygiene" as his hobby.
Oh, and another guy had in his course work section "Defense Against The Dark Arts"

[lonestar]

Oh, and another guy had in his course work section "Defense Against The Dark Arts"

I'd almost hire him on that alone.

[TioJorge]

Poor dude got the plague for being salesman of the year. 

[wasteland]

Looks like "attetnion to details" is the riskiest thing to include in your curriculum