I once worked with a girl...
Who was clearly hired for her sex appeal. There were several things to indicate this: the fact that her breasts were something like 34 Fs, and apparently natural, the fact that my boss was clearly a pervert, and the fact that she looked like that hot mum from The OC, but 20 years old. The one thing that really stood out though, was her CV.

I feel at this point it's worth mentioning also that this girl was a maths student at Newcastle University.

We all know how to use computers, and most of us have a reasonable idea of how to present information in a CV, even if we can't decide which pieces of information should go in. So, I feel that there is no excuse for hand writing a CV in this day and age, and even less so for using the popularly abused abbreviation "lol".

Honestly, I thought even common people had more sense than that.
( Styxx hates when people talk in the third person, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 13:15, 3 replies)

your tag line
I once recieved a CV from a guy entirely in 3rd person. "Rick is a talented individual...Rick runs a strong team..."etc. For the entire CV. Didn't get the job.
(jameslib, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 15:45, closed)

3rd Person
That's because the Jobcentre folk will tell you it ALL has to be in the 3rd person. I tried it, and felt that it was completely ridiculous and ignored them. They whined. I am now employed. I win. THE END
(badgerlikespeed, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:22, closed)

I work at a college
one of my colleagues showed me the personal statements for some of the application forms for the hairdressing courses.

Christ.

"I wanna b a hairdressa bcz I luv working wiv ppl n stuff" was the general sentence structure.
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Sun 19 Oct 2008, 17:28, closed)