I Like Cooking Dogs And Interesting People –Real CV Blunders That Make Sure You’ll Never Get That Dream Job

22/06/09

A survey by career coaching experts Personal Career Management (www.personalcareermanagement.com) has found that 94 per cent of applicants searching for their dream job are missing out on vacancies through poor spelling, grammar or presentation on their CVs.

A lack of grammatical knowledge has lead to alarming disclosures: " my interests include cooking dogs and interesting people".

Applicants' attempts to impress potential employers failed as a result of poor pharasing and inappropriate language such as the hilarious "While working in this role, I had intercourse with a variety of people".

Out of 450 CVs surveyed Corinne Mills, MD of Personal Career Management...

...and author of the best selling CV book, 'You're Hired! How to write a brilliant CV' discovered 81% had errors in spelling or grammar, and a further 13% were badly presented. Other examples of mistakes uncovered in the study include:

- As security guard my job is to pervert unauthorised people from coming onto the site
- I am a pubic relations officer
- I was responsible for dissatisfied customers
- My role involved coaching and mentioning
- I have excellent editing and poof-reading skills
- I relieved the conference manager
- I am a prooficient typist
- Socially I like to dine out with different backgrounds
- I get well with all types of people
- I was responsible for fraudulent claims
- Experienced sheet mental worker
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