Imagine you are reading a résumé and the applicant calls himself out as a genius and proceeds to invite you to his apartment to interview him. Would you take him up on the offer?
That is just one of the many responses to CareerBuilder’s recent survey about hiring managers’ real-life outrageous résumé experiences.
While the list is long, here are a few of our favorites:
Affiliations: Candidate’s cover letter talked about her family being in the mob.
Skill set: Candidate applying for a management job listed “gator hunting” as a skill.
Presentation: Candidate specified that her résumé was set up to be sung to the tune of “The Brady Bunch.”
Accomplishments: Candidate highlighted the fact that he was “Homecoming Prom Prince” in 1984.
Objectives: Candidate listed “to make dough” as the objective on the résumé.
Language Spoken: Candidate claimed to be able to speak “Antartican” when applying for a job to work in Antarctica.
What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever read, or seen, in a résumé? Tell us below.
As a manager for many years I think having a skill as hunting gators and / or hearding cats is valuable
Strangest resume? A 10 page sermon, including the assertion that our company will be achieve great prosperity in hiring the candidate, for he has been blessed by Jesus.