Reply to: CV sadvice on CUK

[threaded]

And on that subject, HC Andersen, I was reading his job application to work at Copenhagen Library a few weeks ago...

"I would like fixed employment in the civil service as I am fed up with working for a living."

[threaded]

I believe it's where Hans Christian Andersen got most of his inspiration.

Oh, I forget, it's actually in the fourth paragraph of the introduction letter too.

It always gets mentioned at interviews, well, by Danish interviewers anyway.

[threaded]

I believe it's where Hans Christian Andersen got most of his inspiration.

I think that's somewhere on page 15.

[Churchill]

I had a spell checker alter CORBA to COBRA and then an agent took that section from my CV and used it for a fake job advert on Jobserve.

Oh, how you all laughed.

So did I until, WTF, that's a bit from my CV...

Ah yes, Threaded's CV, the cause of much merriment...

I believe it's where Hans Christian Andersen got most of his inspiration.

[threaded]

I couldn't believe it when I realised months after sending out my CV that I had put "roll" for "role".

I had a spell checker alter CORBA to COBRA and then an agent took that section from my CV and used it for a fake job advert on Jobserve.

Oh, how you all laughed.

So did I until, WTF, that's a bit from my CV...

[OrangeHopper]

I couldn't believe it when I realised months after sending out my CV that I had put "roll" for "role".

[scooterscot]

I was particularly impressed with one CV.

He apparently had 4 or 5 wordprocessors, but not one of them had a spell checker.

It's a niggle for me.

If folks don't have the time to check those sorts of errors, manor manner.. than my comment to them flags.

[scooterscot]

I've had one go back twenty years

"Can we just go back to your time as a games programmer in the Eighties - not because it's relevant, but because it sounds REALLY cool!"

The same!! Makes you stand out from the rest also.. 'So working for the european space agency, what the heck was that like?"

[NickFitz]

Explaining past experience is important, I've had interviewers question me on jobs that go back 8 years.

I've had one go back twenty years

"Can we just go back to your time as a games programmer in the Eighties - not because it's relevant, but because it sounds REALLY cool!"

[Jeebo72]

Go on, you can't just say that, you've got to tell us the question now...

It was a practical test ... a very very simple one!

[threaded]

Well 9 years experience on that cv and couldn't do a (very) simple test. If you're going to make up your skills on a cv why bother going to 9 pages worth ... sheesh ...

Go on, you can't just say that, you've got to tell us the question now...

[sasguru]

[QUOTE=BlackenedBiker;1050486][QUOTE=sasguru;1050462]As someone on the receiving end of CVs [B]

Oh you work in the post room???? Hence you have enough time to post 16K posts

Yes I work in the post room and post on CUK all day.
And I'm still considerably richer than thou, loser

[Jeebo72]

Well 9 years experience on that cv and couldn't do a (very) simple test. If you're going to make up your skills on a cv why bother going to 9 pages worth ... sheesh ...

[BlackenedBiker]

[QUOTE=sasguru;1050462]As someone on the receiving end of CVs [B][QUOTE]

Oh you work in the post room???? Hence you have enough time to post 16K posts

[threaded]

Just got a cv through for a job I'm hiring for ... 9 pages!!! ... read the first 2 then gave up ;-)

Well, it's not mine, as mine's longer...