Hiring Managers, What CV/Resume Immediately Made You Approve or Reject The Candidate? (r/AskReddit)

hiring managers of Reddit what was something on someone's CV slash resume that made you either immediately want to hire them or immediately reject them it was 14 pages ETA Finance position with five to ten years experience there's only so many different ways you can describe finance responsibilities and summarizing is a skill dude never pitched for the interview haha we had a resume for an internship come through that was that long and included his karate accomplishments in sixth grade had a kid applying to work out a Sam Goody as a stock boy right that he was a petroleum transference engineer for Exxon at his last job his job was pumping gas I hired him on the spot yo I reviewed a resume like that one slaw kid wrote something like waste management technician for being a school janitor law I work at an escape room we once received a resume that consisted in a web page address protected by a password and three well-crafted riddles that we had to solve to get the password we spent an hour doing it with two colleagues and it included decrypting a code from a specific frame of zodiac by David Fincher it was simply amazing sadly we weren't hiring at the time and she had found another job when we started hiring again once I received a resume that had raid leader for World of Warcraft in top guild of a server this was about nine years ago the other hiring managers laughed their asses often said this guy is a joke and they all dismissed him me I asked the guy to come in for an interview and he did pretty well and I hired him the reason I brought the guy in for interview was because I'm an avid World of Warcraft player at that time and I know the [ __ ] raid leaders go true trying to get a large number of people together co-ordinate resources and rewards getting guides together and telling people to have their healing slash DPS and not stand in fire all done virtually via vent and forum postings meaning you never met these guild members in person you need some great leadership skills and project management also at that time I was dealing with a lot of people off-site so I thought this guy would be a good fit nine years later I've left the company the world of warcraft guy I hired turned out to be great especially in the last nine years when corporations decide that working from home virtual meetings is the way to go to cut cost his skill set as a raid leader translated very well with remote project management and is now the manager of the hiring managers that laughed at his resume this was at a fortune 500 financial company TLDR if you stand in the fire I'm not healing your ass guy submitted a resume claiming to be a guest writer for a local college in lieu of a college degree he listed the unit's he wrote assignments for and the average grades his clients got I had one application dropped off by the applicants mother she told me if you hire him you probably shouldn't trust him with money updated it I threw the application away after she turned around I was hiring for a salesclerk position at my family bakery I had a candidate who worked in counseling in the past mostly with kids who had been through trauma they had a line on their resume that said expert in child kidnapping I had to at least give them an interview because I understood the intent but the wording was just hilarious ly unfortunate edit for those seeking clarity he was an expert in kidnapping cases no he didn't get the job nice guy but not a good fit for the role my uncle works in marketing and told me about an applicant who sent them a video file as resume where he presented himself like one would present a product in a commercial he immediately wanted to hire him for his creativity alone I have several CVS that will never make the cut I keep them in a non gdpr proof binder hidden out of view I work as an IT recruiter normal CV on the job site junior profile 18 years old just finished school pretty normal CV except at the bottom he writes that he has a small donk and likes guys the CV goes back and forth in the office eventually we decide to call him and ask why he put that on his CV turns out he had to make the CV for school left his PC open and one of his classmates thought it was funny to add that to his profile a CV with a picture of man and only his boxers no headshot just his abs boxers and legs we did not call the guy several Seavey's with people ranting against the government religion or anything else obvious proof of mental disabilities people writing things such as I will do the time for the crime I may or may not have committed I haven't called any of them cover letters with the wrong company name on it so many cover letters with the wrong company on it recruiters will forget to change your name when sending you an email applicants will forget to change the name when applying we really need to get rid of mandatory cover letters I'll still call them if their profile is decent people being open about just putting their CV online so they can keep their unemployment benefits at least they don't waste my time I received a resume from an applicant that included a letter of recommendation from his cat the letter was hilarious and signed with a Claire bar paw print I thought it was great and wanted to bring him in but the manager for the position wasn't as crazy about it I guess the point is humor in an application can work for you but it really depends on the person I was working for a small digital agency and we were looking for designers and illustrators general multi-skilled creative types the boss wanders in with a slight grin and a big folder it was from a guy who wanted a job I came over and he started flicking through it page after page of XE cartoons lots of them furry type staff boobs butt slips figures interwined lot of detailed musculature so I was like well it's quite good for what it is but what else is there is there another section No nothing else just a folder completely full of semi graphic cartoon people and Xen throughout the more Feist animals edit he was not hired it wasn't because of the cartoons it was because it was all just those cartoons would have liked to see some commercial applications of illustration or something showing he could work to requirements or a variety of work showing different styles also this was 15 as years ago I had a resume from a potential interview candidate that listed his reason for leaving his last job as I found her body no further explanation you bet your sweet patootie I called him in for an interview as a strategy to get an interview it worked the condensed story is that he found a body while walking the grounds at his job checking to make sure all gated areas were secure and clear of the Brits when he found the body he called the police he was fired because he broke internal reporting protocol he was supposed to notify his immediate supervisor and not outside authorities it was the supervisors responsibility to call the police bad emails when interviewing for a professional position and your contact email is 69 smoke our girl 420 blazing it's a terrible way to start the resume right it's free to make as many emails as you want just spend the 3 minutes to make a second email that's first name dot last name at domain.com for your work purposes not so much the content of the application but what was on the application a handprint it was for a food handling position and he was grungy enough to leave a print from where he held down the paper to write on it instant no looking back yeah there was a chance he'd have been fine we could have taught proper hand-washing and all that but at the time we declined to grant an interview I was hiring for a very competitive IT role last year and one guy who didn't have the best real-world experience added a single QR code at the bottom of his CV I scanned it and it took me to an online portfolio including a secure lab with simulations he'd ran allowing me to test scripts he'd written and also play around in his lab environment honestly I'd never seen anything like it the guy got the job and has continued to be a great fit had a resume coming from a guy we fired about two years previously had a gap in his employment where the time was he had been with us so not even like he didn't realize the confidence to apply for a job you've been fired from man that's something I had a headhunter submit my resume to place that I had quit a year earlier my old boss called me and asked you are not dumb enough to consider coming back here are you I got my first IT job because I put in additional skills modifying fallout 3 using GE CK I just loaded custom packs and got them to work and they gave me the job miraculously even though I was under qualified many of us who are in IT are also gamers and IT is one of those jobs as long as you won't be running the place it's easy to learn on the go there's more than enough of the simple stuff going on to go around usually and as long as you at least try you normally will pick it up fairly quickly not a hiring manager but I once wrote stuff like able to plug in USB on first try and can do up to ten push-ups before going into sleep mode in the additional skills section they later told me I was invited because they wanted to see if I really can do the first one did you yes but I obviously gave both the plug and the jack a very close look beforehand the interviewer found it quite funny and I had a great time working there

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Published: Sun Oct 06 2019