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Real-life resume blunders

An inane list of typos, not exactly smirk inducing.

These are neither particularly funny nor original. Now if you will excuse me, I want to go proofread my own resume one more time.

From the looks of it many of the typos were made by Microsoft Word and its onniscient spell checker - ably abetted by users who automatically hit the CHANGE button every time Spell Check flags any word.

"Onniscient"? I guess you decided to turn that spell check feature off, eh?

Well I must be in a good mood, because some of these "typos" really cracked me up.

...although what REALLY worries me is the idea I might offer some of them an interview just to see if they were for real. And to see if I could keep a straight face... Between the one squeezed out by someone's partner, the one with the RV and the one heading for Florida, (not to mention the one who hasn't been fired...yet!)there's GOT to be a talk show in there somewhere (?!)

I found several of these quite funny and a few just downright scary. To think that people actually put these in their resume's!

EMD

I was amused -- and scared -- at the same time. Surely none of my clients submitted these... !!!???

They may not all be funny but some have me laughing out loud.

Spell chek just dozen't do it job sometimes and its a killr. but I thought most of them were funny, sad to say I've made some pretty nice snafus when I first left the Army. I can only look back, laugh at myself and move on. Oh just blam stupd spel check.

I edited this post because althought in my mind I put the word "were" in my title, once posted I realized it wasn't there. Hmmmm, we all mess up but can we recover and laugh at it later.

I'm assuming the multitude of spelling errors in your post was intentional? Or is English not your "mother-tongue"?

Read the following to answer you own question of comprehension and synthesizing of the English language to determine if it is grammatically inerrant.

I think you are alluding to the grammatical errors in the post. If you were able to amalgamate the subject matter of this blog, you would realize the wittiness in my post is associated with the 1) addiction of most to MS Word spell check and 2) a lack of concern, to proofing materials before sending them. Also, to address my aptitude to grasp the English language as you put it, I graduated with Honors in the top 10% of my high school and recently completed my BS in Computer Science with an overall 3.4 GPA. I mentioned that to say this, my skill to converse in print is not hampered nor mired such, that I am not able to effectively convey a message jokingly if I so desire.

Now your need of a sense of humor is another issue as well as the narrow-minded question as to whether or not I am a foreigner. This will help you determine if I am a foreigner or not; I was on a little island called the North American continent, in a little known country named the United States in the State of Georgia and City of Atlanta. Now can you determine if it is an International post by a foreigner?

RoT: If you have to go back and explain a 'joke' it was never that funny to begin with.

Yeah, I 'got' the effect you were going for, but it was such a weak execution I couldn't tell if that was your goal or if you just couldn't spell. I understand you're trying to be subtle and clever, but it was a mediocre result at best.

Wow, it looks like you did quite well in school. Your mother must be really proud of you.

As for my need for a sense of humor, I've checked and it seems to be operating within specified parameters. For example, I find it hilarious that you got so worked-up to my reply.

Relax, you're getting too worked up about this.

I want ya sheep. I play well with sheep in heels

You always got to take pleasure in the little things. I wouldn't pay to hear these at a comedy club, but they certainly served as a little light-hearted break during the day.

I liked the one with the great memory

Dribbleglass has always been kind of lame. This is actually better than most of the stuff on their site.

Not all of them were typos. Coming to a "screeching halt" on the information highway is pretty damned funny - at least to me. Oh and asking the potential employer to send your resum? back if he isn't interested? Come on - you've got to love that type of thinking.

It gets you thinking: perhaps there's a company I would never want to work for. And maybe there's an opportunity to send in the worst. possible. resume. to them.

It's a thought, anyway.

Only..... what happens if I already work there?

my co workers laughed..

you've got an idea there Doug..
now i know what my pet project will be....
hey, it might even give some uptight HR manager a bit of a laugh!!

HR people (using the term people VERY loosly) have their sense of humor surgically removed before they can work in HR.

But then again, I think they both take the same "Intro to being an ****** 101" course in college.

We make misatkes. Plaese forigve us and focus on the improtnat area.

In my career as a manager I've seen thousands of resumes. None of them as funny as these. Typos used to drive me crazy and I thought that there was no excuse for them...until it happened to me. I sent out my resume at one o'clock in the morning applying for the position of "IT Manger". I caught it the next day after a good nights sleep - to late by then. I never did hear back from them.

Dean

Never trust the computer. Just because all the words are spelled correctly doesn't mean they are grammatically correct. That's why I make my wife read everything.

Wow, is she done with War & Peace yet?

My spell cheque program makes sure all of my words are write, as you can plane lee sea.

Luks lik yoo went too the sam "hukt on fonix" clas as mi.

I iz gotz me a dimploma in eboniks

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
- President Andrew Jackson

Richard, now that's funie.

It would upset the directator of IT. Also, what in the hell is "administrating" a network? Is that even a word? I've seen that used many times, even in technical books I have read, and simply shake my head when I see it being used. The word is "administering", not "administrating".

According to:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/administrating

ad?min?is?trate /?dˈmɪnəˌstreɪt/
-verb (used with object), -trat?ed, -trat?ing.
to administer.

That happened to me once. Now I only work for steady companies that can easily meet payroll.

On the other hand, I don't put that as the reason I left either.

I worked part time for a personnel placement service while in college. We placed high level management and engineers in the food production industry. Some of these folks were making $80k in 1988. We received several resumes written in crayon. Yes, in crayon. The best was the guy that wrote in crayon, on construction paper, and then let his child draw a picture on the back. I had to re-type all of that cr@p into our format. Do you realize how hard it is to read pink crayon on tan construction paper when the crayon is dull and the "adult" is trying to write small? I swear that's why I now have to wear reading glasses.

I also had that educational experience. The Clincher was when they DID pay me, the employer said as he handed me the check, "If there is a problem with this, call my mother."

My reply: "If there is a problem with that I will call my lawyer."

The check did not bounce.

So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch...

Typos on resumes arent nearly as bad as bad interviewing. I had someone look like a god on paper, phone interview was aced, went in to the face to face interview and proceeded to lay on the floor in front of the district manager, HR, and VP to fill out the paperwork. I wasnt happy.

So was this someone you knew and had recommeded for the position?

She gave GREAT...

inteview

GG

Unfortunately, we hired somebody else.

...my skills there might get me the job over my technical experience!

Just kidding....don't start, people!!

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