I just caught up to this email from CareerBuilder.com regarding anecdotal stories from hiring managers.\u00a0 These types of stories come out frequently and, honestly, I never get tired of them.\u00a0 Here is the bulleted list:<\/p>\n
When asked for the most memorable missteps they encountered when going through resumes, human resource managers and hiring managers reported the following:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate put God down as a reference (no phone number).<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate listed her hobby as alligator watching.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate claimed to be a direct descendant of the Vikings.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate\u2019s email address had \u201clovesbeer\u201d in it.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate listed \u201cMaster of Time and Universe\u201d under his experience.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate started off the application with “Do you want a tiger?”<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate specifically pointed out that he was not a gypsy.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate\u2019s condition for accepting the position was being allowed to bring his pet monkey to the workplace.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate pointed out, “I’ll have your job in five years.”<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate sent a 24-page resume for a 5-year career.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate put a picture of her cat on top of her resume.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate declared himself the LeBron James of table games.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Candidate sent a video trying to hypnotize the HR manager into hiring him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That last one is excellent\u2026I\u2019m still laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just caught up to this email from CareerBuilder.com regarding anecdotal stories from hiring managers.\u00a0 These types of stories come out frequently and, honestly, I never get tired of them.\u00a0 Here is the bulleted list: When asked for the most memorable missteps they encountered when going through resumes, human resource managers and hiring managers reported the following: \u2022 Candidate put God down as a reference (no phone number). \u2022 Candidate listed her hobby as alligator watching. \u2022 Candidate claimed to be a direct descendant of the Vikings. \u2022 Candidate\u2019s email address had \u201clovesbeer\u201d in it. \u2022 Candidate listed \u201cMaster of Time and Universe\u201d under his experience. \u2022 Candidate started off… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[1646,1645,83,1643,1644],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Dc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}