"interesting" resumes

[FishChicks]

We had a candidate pull out a switchblade and start cleaning his nails in the middle of an interview. Security was discreetly called and he was escorted out.

We recently had a sweet young graduate student interview with us. She kept answering questions by writing on the white board in the conference room, which caused her to turn her back to us. The dress she was wearing had a slit all the way up the her underwear.

We used to give a four hour analysis exercise to applicants for my team. These are all people with Masters or PhDs. A few years ago we went to the assessment room to check on an applicant who was two hours into the exercise and he was just gone. No note, no phone call to the number we left for him, no mention that he was leaving to the security desk he had to pass.

[Deleted]

Oct 3, 2012 13:42:33 GMT -5 ejpint said:

I just finished a round of campus recruiting (for engineers, mind you). My favorite resume had the following listed under "Honors and Awards":

"I enjoy making videos of myself doing a type of dance known as 'jerkin'. My YouTube account as over 180,000 views from these dancing videos."

Congratulations?

Omg, I know - this is my life. There are obviously exceptions, but working in a company full of engineers has been eye opening as to how many socially awkward ppl could be in a room at once. It makes my social awkwardness look like a social butterfly!

[ellipses84]

My old company once hired a charming guy who had a fantastic resume and aced the interviews. We jokingly called him Doogie Howser because he had graduated early and accomplished a lot in his career. He was fairly young for the high level management position he was put in.

After a few months we found out he was a complete fraud and everything on his resume was a lie. He also had a lengthy history as a con man. There were a few red flags but we typically do a rigorous background check and they thought the headhunter had already done it.

His downfall, like every bad guy in the movies, was talking too much. There was no way he could have done everything he said and some of it was googleable. If he had just kept to himself more, he probably would have lasted years and he was actually performing pretty well in the position, lol.

[marylou]

Oct 3, 2012 17:03:08 GMT -5 ejpint said:

Oct 3, 2012 16:23:08 GMT -5 finally said:

One that stands out for me (and I actually emailed to myself) came from someone with an email address of: neptunebitch69@______.com

I LOVE IT when people have ridiculous emails on resumes. It kills me. Almost as great as people applying for jobs who have ringback tones (first of all, what adult has ringback tones) that include babymaking music or hardcore rap. Awesome.

Almost a decade in HR and people are still killing me. I should start a blog, but I'd probably be found out and get fired

Ah! I have a ringback tone right now and I can't get rid of it! I have no clue how it got there, and Verizon tells me I don't have one every time I call them to have it removed. It's that stupid standard classical one, and I hate it so much!

[lurkergirl123]

In a previous job I worked with a group of ladies in a big, open office space. We were all friendly with each other and joked and laughed together throughout the day. We were hiring someone and had an applicant who looked great on paper but said, during the interview, "I hate laughing". We were sort of taken aback by that.

[catmt]

I had one where the applicant stated we could not contact his former employer because he had slept with his boss's wife. He had found out, fired him, and was still angry.

[HoneySpider]

These are crazy.

Makes me feel so much more confident in my ordinary, standard resume.

[kellbell191]

I work at a district attorney's office. We were recently hiring an admin position and had the following:
1) someone whose email was "bubblesmom444"
2) someone whose ringback tone was red solo cup. My boss hung up, she called back and he felt awkward not offering her an interview so he brought her in. No way she was getting hired.
3) someone we have prosecuted and convicted. WHAT

[phunluvin82]

Oct 4, 2012 12:18:52 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

These are crazy.

Makes me feel so much more confident in my ordinary, standard resume.

:Y:

[phunluvin82]

Oct 4, 2012 12:14:19 GMT -5 catmt said:

I had one where the applicant stated we could not contact his former employer because he had slept with his boss's wife. He had found out, fired him, and was still angry.

whut?! wow.

[cahabalily]

Received a fantastic cover letter and resume via fax (how we asked for it - the company is stuck in the 90's), but the applicant had dotted all of the i's with hearts on the handwritten fax cover sheet.

Straight into the garbage.

ETA: forgot an old one. One time received a cover letter and resume from blackyumyum69@_______.com

[hubes]

I was talking to a recruiter at a job fair, and one of my classmates resumes was sitting on his table. She had spelled her first name wrong- "Heahter" instead of "Heather."

[megalicious]

Two that jump out in my mind.

The first was when I was working for a VERY small company, our office was about 5 women aged 19-40. We got a resume from a guy who listed all his experience (cook, laundry, and metalwork) at "Xzycity SCI". I googled it... he had spent 10 years in the State Correctional Institution (SCI).

The second was more recently, we had a student do her clinical with our department. She was finishing her MS, SLP and still included her work as a bra fitter at VS. Um... that's great, but you're applying to elementary schools chica.


Also, when were were interviewing for the position that the guy applied for, we interviewed a woman who started profusely sweating as soon as the interview started to the point where she kept having to wipe her face off and it was soaking her hair and through her dress. I was all of 23 years old and 5'2"... not exactly intimidating.