I once received a CV which had listed in the work experience section: ‘Worked as a floor in a nightclub’

Got a cv into my workplace before and person had “birthplace: The Coombe” written on it… Still trying to work out how it’s relevant!!

Got a CV from an Eastern European a few years back and under his interests it said – cumputer, socialising and I have a Gun !!!!!

My dad once got a CV in the post, included with it were two sheets of toilet paper with the words “I’m willing to start at the bottom” scrawled across them.

Ive hired a few people in my time… My two weirdest were a 14 pager that included a copy of the cert you got for ‘graduating’ primary school and another that had a whole list of scores, titles and achievements from world of Warcraft/dungeons and dragons type games

In my last job I got a lot of cvs with email addresses like galwayslut69@blah.com Get a separate address for work girls!

I once got a cv in with one interesting hobby.. hand milking cows

Had to design the odd CV in a printers. Once had a girl come in and asked could she put her photo on the front page. Bad enough. But then she wanted same picture blown up as a watermark on each page! Horrific.

Another was from a gent who was in his late fifties. His CV was 7 pages long in excel format listing every job he had since the seventies. Every job was short term (from a couple of days to one month). A list of over 200 jobs
that he had held.

My latest CV addition, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

We got a cv in work from a far eastern guy whos only hobby was ” I like to smile”

Anyone who puts “socialising” on their CV is pretty much saying they enjoy a good drink.

Also once saw a CV typed up… in Comic Sans. Words fail me.

Did the MS Word thing. And the “socialising” thing.

I also like to freewheel downhill, but only after pedaling uphill furiously. (I don’t want to appear lazy!)

I had a chap give me a pretty cringey three pager with professional DJ and producer and such like. The third page was him on a boat in Thailand. Wearing a straw pork pie hat. Shirtless.

A girl in college with me had a 5-page CV. She’d never had a job. First page had ‘Private and Confidential’. Only other item I recall was ‘Sixer in the Brownies’.
Think she got a job in FF head office.

Achievements:

climbed carrantuohill once as a scout

Cash Escort is my current role. Really need to rephrase that.

Not on my CV but on others…

I used to love seeing CVs in the 90s and the 00s that proclaimed that they had a provisional driving license. I used to laugh to myself that this was basically saying they could fill in a form.

My other favourite was some guy who had Father’s occupation: Company Director; Mother’s occupation: Homemaker. Why is that relevant?

I put ‘Administration’ in my skills section. Its not really a skill is it.

maybe not so much a weird thing on my CV but got asked to describe a difficult situation I had when I worked in the bookies in an interview for a graduate office job, so i told them (in a very straight forward run of the mill tone) about a guy who lost a bet and came back threw a giant cement block (not brick, was massive thing dug out of the ground from a nearby building site) at us twice (luckily we had a bullet priof screen thar barely scratched) and how we called the gards and they did nothing (said guy drinking accross the way in the pub all day) and then later on when i came back from my dinner break the other 2 were shaking as he’d been back with a gun (fake in the end but they didnt know that!). so finished up with, yeah difficult situation only way we could resolve it was by giving the gards a statement and letting them do the rest

The 2 interviewers had no idea how to react and awkwardly went ok then asked me about a difficult situation I had in a different job! got the job anyway!

I once interviewed a copoclephologist!!

a Yank friend of mine, 50, sent me his cv to pass on. very qualified guy. his achievements listed when from most recent all the way back too. ……….. wait for it…………………………………………. wait………………………………………… THE FAST PAPER ROUND IN BURLINGAME, SAN FRANCISCO.

I asked him, ‘you do realize your are a fifty year old man.. right. ?????????

Americans…. eh.?

I included writing plot for a live action roleplaying game on my cv. Teamwork, meeting deadlines, writing succinct and memorable briefs for people. Totes relevant skills.

astronaut cowboy! i rented the spacesuit and hat for the photo.