Topic: Lists of resume blunders.

[Clive]

http://jobmob.co.il/blog/funniest-resume-mistakes/

[Simon]

 

[GillE]

“1990 - 1997: Stewardess - Royal Air Force”

What's wrong with that?  The Royal Air Force does employ stewardesses. 

Most of these so-called 'blunders' just show up the recruiters lack of intelligence and worldly experience.  There's no wonder so many people are in employment that's way beyond their capabilities.  I wonder if they have contracts to recruit for the civil service.

[Sandra]

I had to go for an assessment at the job centre about 10 years back.
The "interviewer" looked like she had possibly left school 12 months earlier and had no experience of life or work other than at the job centre.
She asked which jobs I had done previously.
I said that I had worked in an insurance office as a clerk after leaving school then when I reached 18 I went out selling insurance policies and collecting the weekly and monthly payments for the same firm as an insurance agent.
She said "That would make me suitable to be a shop assistant"
Then I said I worked for 12 years as an engineering inspector at Lucas Electrical, a big employer in my town at the time.
She said "That would be packing in a warehouse"
I said no I was reading engineering drawings and measuring the components to within a tolerance of + or - .005 of an inch or less, not counting 12 bottles of bleach per cardboard box.
She said "Thats down as packing now"


 

[sam]

that's crazy!

[GillE]

It's par for the course, Sam.  When I was discharged from the air force, having been responsible for a budget of £86 million back in the early nineties, I had to register with a job centre.  They told me I didn't have qualifications.  I asked them what a law degree was and they simply replied by asking me if I'd considered working as a receptionist.

[sam]

eeek!

I wonder what they would say if I said I have a doctorate in astrophysics...

[GillE]

Oh, you'd get them excited, Sam; they've probably never seen lab technician material before. However, I doubt they'd be able to do anything related to employment which wasn't covered by the New Deal.

[Sandra]

Theyd probably say you shoud get a job with that yank guy who claims to own the moon, as youd be the ideal person to sell his plots of land 

[sam]

lol, Sandra you do them a dis-service, there is no way they are that smart!! If they were they would be higher up the government payroll and putting our data on dvd's to send to spammers...