Resume Jokes

Now days, I am going through numerous CVs for some of the openings for my organization as well as for some of my clients for consultants job. I am encountering many jokes in the resumes of the candidates which I am going to summarize here.

1. I got one CV of a professional having 3 years of work experience in Telecom domain. He had mentioned something very cute in his “Personal Details” section. He had mentioned his “Marital Status” as “Never Married”.
2. One of the CV had mentioned the passport status as “Police Verification Stage”. The resume was of a fresher.
3. Passport status on of one CV, I have seen, was “will be applied next week”.
4. One CV stated career objectives as “To become a successful professional in the Industry”. The CV was having an experience of 2 years.
5. On one of the CV, address was mentioned without any Indian state name.
6. “References” – “If required” was also very funny.
7. “Career Objectives” – “I am a quick learner” was also cool.

Most of the CVs are nothing but itself a joke. In case of fresher’s, project on which those guys have worked in their college as a part of course curriculum, is like a big question mark for them. 90% of the fresher’s were not able to even present their project for 15 seconds. I don’t know what they have done in their engineering.

As far as experienced professionals are concern, 50% of the CV holders are not able to describe 50% of the technologies that they have mentioned in their respective CVs. A very funny answer in that case is “I studied it a lot but never implemented it” or “I need to brush up the fundamentals”. Even if I ask a basic question about any mentioned technology in their CV, the answer would be same.

Using this blog forum, I would like to say all my readers that you should mention only that stuff in the CV which you have actually worked upon practically. This will make your life easy in the interviews.

Sanat Sharma
www.xtremeedge.in