Mistakes people make on their CV's or Resume's

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Most people write their CV's with the intention to impress and make their prospective employer pick them for the job. However, there are times that some of the things people write on their CV's or Resume's have grievous grammatical mistakes not to mention, some of them do not make sense at all.

Take a look at these hideous mistakes which were retrieved from real resumes and published on Fortune Magazine.

1. ‘I demand a salary commiserate with my extensive experience.’

2. ‘I have lurnt Word for Widows, computor operations and spreasheet progroms.’

3. ‘I received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.’

4. ‘Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions.’

5. ‘Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave.’

6. ‘Failed bar exam with relatively high grades.’

7. ‘It’s best for employers that I not work with people.’

8. ‘Let’s meet , so you can ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ over my experience.’


9. ‘You will want me to be Head Honcho in no time.’


10. ‘Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget details.’


11. ‘I was working for my mom until she decided to move.’


12. ‘Marital status: single. Unmarried. Unengaged. Uninvolved. No commitments.’


13. ‘I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse.’


14 ‘I am loyal to my employer at all costs….Please feel free to respond to my résumé on my office voice mail.’


15. ‘I have become completely paranoid, trusting completely no one and absolutely nothing. ‘


16. ‘My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I possess no training in meteorology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage.’


17.The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous employers.


18. A few weeks after a young man had been employed; he was called into the Human Resources administrator’s office. ‘What is the meaning of this?’ the personnel officer asked. ‘When you applied for this job, you told us you had three years experience. Now I have discovered this is the first position You’ve ever held.’


‘True’, the young man answered with a smile, ‘in your advertisement you said you wanted a person with imagination.’

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