Stretching the truth on a CV is unfortunately considered the norm within the recruitment industry with an estimated 50% of candidates admitting to fibbing or blatantly lying on their CVs. And whilst the majority of most people’s CV embellishments will go undetected, Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thomson was less fortunate when he got caught misrepresenting his [...]
Category: Client, CV, Recruitment
Tags: CV, CV lies, CV Writing Tips, HR
As you can imagine, here at Response we have seen thousands upon thousands of CVs over the years. On the whole, most CVs are well laid out and give us enough information to decide whether that person is suitable for a role or not. However, you can always hear a chuckle when a consultant opens [...]
Category: candidates, CV
Tags: CV Bloopers, CV Funny, CV Help, Resume Bloopers, Resume Funny
There are myriad clichéd sound bites that can ruin even the finest CVs and scupper your chances for success in 2013. Your CV will probably get between 15 and 30 seconds of time to impress a recruiter, so it would be a shame if it failed because it was so chock full of meaningless phrases and [...]
Category: candidates, CV, Recruitment
Tags: CV Help, CV Writing Tips, CVs
Over the past 10 years we have seen more CVs than you have had hot dinners. As a result we like to feel that we have honed our technique so that we know very quickly whether a CV is a good or bad egg, or something. We have filmed a short video where Mark and Charles [...]
Category: Client, CV, Human Resources
Tags: CV Assessment, CV sifting, CVs
In the first 50 of the funniest things we’ve read in a CV I included someone listing an achievement on their CV as sober, another listed their skills as speaking Italian and Spinach and someone else stating they were a ‘rabid’ typist. Below is another collection of 50 classic CV faux pas, enjoy! CV 51. JOB [...]
Category: candidates, CV, Recruitment
Tags: CV Bloopers, CV Funny, CV Mistakes, Resume Bloopers
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