So, for the past two days, I’ve been going through a wad of CV’s for upcoming work regarding a certain cellular network. We have really had lots of them sent through, and I’ve actually been quite disappointed with most of them. In my eyes, your CV is supposed to be at least one thing you really take pride in, making it look good, making sure there are no spelling mistakes, being positive about yourself and previous employment. Not a fuck. Out of the pile that I have, I’ve set three aside.

Here are a few things that really put me off the others.

The first one that  came through looked OK, with the pretty font that she used to type Curriculum Vitae, then I turned the page and started reading. First line? “Personall Data” Lets look past that one shall we. Three lines down, “Martial status – Singel” <— I shit you not. Two lines down, “Drivers Licence” Her home language is English, and she spells “better” – “Beter” She is a hard worker, well disiplined and believes through hard work you can achieve sucess.

The next one, everything on the first two pages was great, no spelling mistakes, until the “More about me” section came, this is it, word for word – “generel strenghts: im hard working responsible disciplined self motivated like to encourage team work and people orintated” No punctuation what_so_fucking_ever. Looks like the whole CV was copied and she just added in the last bit herself.

The next one. I’m just going to point out spelling mistakes on this two page CV. Personell, curiculum, home adress, cellphons, ocupation, school atended, work experiance, possition held, refferances.

This one, I didn’t actually read, I binned it after reading “Ciriculum Vtae” So, for shits and giggles, I went digging in the bin this morning to have another look at it.. It should have stayed there, I got my hands grubby for nothing. Titel, surnam, dependants, standerd, instittution, coarse (as in course) liquedated.

On of the CV’s that irritated me the most was the negativity in it, reasons for leaving his previous job was “I didn’t like my boss and we didn’t get along with each other” It might just be me, but, I would never put something like that on my CV, ever, what do you think?

There are a few others, but I’m not going through them again just to point out bad grammar. Someone on Twitter put forward a good point, and asked what would happen if the CV’s were in the persons first language? I’m not trying to be racist in this post in anyway, I know what you’re trying to say, but still, is it so hard to use a spell checker? And read through what ever bullshit you have written before you send it out, better yet, read the entire thing backwards, I find that helps so much more for picking out spelling mistakes, or if you’re too lazy to do that, have someone else proof read it for you.

Like I said in a previous post, if you’re writing a letter to someone, at least put some effort into it. A CV? Put even more effort into it, sell yourself, make who ever is reading it want to meet and interview you! Out of all the CV’s that came in yesterday, I’m only putting three of them forward.