Reply to: CV Interests

[eek]

Absolutely! Mentioning 15c re-enactment got me into investment banking. The MD was a 15c history fan (even has his own website about it) and ended up making armour for me to use. The head programmer loved WoW and spent the interview asking me which weapons work against which types of armour, as an after thought he asked me what a smart pointer was and then went back to talking about WoW!

Best interview I ever had until the HR one which came next, that culminated with being asked out by the girl interviewing me.

Reader I married her....

[SueEllen]

I may have worked with this person!

Bless you.

[Jeebo72]

best one I saw was the one who put his interests as 'I am a Jehovah's witness with my own ministry'.

.

I may have worked with this person!

[MicrosoftBob]

The only shotgun I've ever liked was a folding stock pump.



Not my type of weapon really.

Unless it's got slugs in it.

Shooting slugs at people now that is cruel and unusual, I'm sure the RSPCA would have something to say about it as well...

[Scruff]

The only shotgun I've ever liked was a folding stock pump.



Not my type of weapon really.

Unless it's got slugs in it.

But is it rifled? 🍻

[Antman]

Place I worked at as a permy had CVs in for tester and someone mentioned that they played in a champions league final (true) or European Cup as it was known at the time. Unsurprisingly they got the job.

Played 5-a-side against him and for someone in his fifties he was the best player on the pitch by a country mile.

[MicrosoftBob]

Now that would be a way to get an interview!

One guys who was interviewed once where I used to work had LARPing on his cv and identified which faction he was from (apparently this might be of interest to interviewers?!). The interviewer asked me about it because he knew that I was a LARPer too (although it is not on my cv) and I played the same system as him and our two groups were bitter enemies.

I almost begged to be let into the interview to mention it and to pretend have a go at him. Unfortunately interviews are 'a serious process' or something and they gave a blanket refusal to me being there or providing any questions for them to ask

It's probably forever tainted by Role Models (not that it needed much help)

[MyUserName]

That would be telling!

Now that would be a way to get an interview!

One guys who was interviewed once where I used to work had LARPing on his cv and identified which faction he was from (apparently this might be of interest to interviewers?!). The interviewer asked me about it because he knew that I was a LARPer too (although it is not on my cv) and I played the same system as him and our two groups were bitter enemies.

I almost begged to be let into the interview to mention it and to pretend have a go at him. Unfortunately interviews are 'a serious process' or something and they gave a blanket refusal to me being there or providing any questions for them to ask

[mudskipper]

What about you was studied and whose personal interest was it for?

That would be telling!

[Gibbon]

Mine says:

Interests: Cycling, geocaching, reading and writing. Cycled from Lands’ End to John O’ Groats during Summer 2010. Completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust Higher Certificate whilst working for exPermieCo. In 2013, I achieved a BA(Hons) (First) in Humanities with Art History with the Open University, which I had been studied for personal interest.
I think it needs sexing up a bit.

What about you was studied and whose personal interest was it for?

[GlenW]

Ah, a fellow shootist....

Still got my shotties and thinking about a FAC application for a rimmy at the moment but the PC brigade don't seem to like 'shooting things' as a hobby on a CV

4 shotguns, a .22 lr, a .243 and a .270
I've shot since I was a nipper.
But certainly not on my CV!

[MyUserName]

Can't remember now, as I haven't looked at my CV for three years, which is the time I've been with my current clientco.

Really? I update mine every few months!

[OwlHoot]

So do any of you lot have interests on your CV? ...

Can't remember now, as I haven't looked at my CV for three years, which is the time I've been with my current clientco.

[TestMangler]

WTMS.

Ah, a fellow shootist....

Still got my shotties and thinking about a FAC application for a rimmy at the moment but the PC brigade don't seem to like 'shooting things' as a hobby on a CV

[vetran]

I put CUK on under addictions.