On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:27:45 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On 05/06/2013 10:19 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:54:09 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>
>>> I don't even know where to start with this. How could someone get
>>> basic English words so badly wrong?
>>
>> Must've been educated in the US. ;)
>>
>> (I had someone send me an e-mail today that used "no" instead of "know"
>> -
>> seriously....)
> 
> Maybe. But that's an email. We're talking about a CV here - a document
> that is a) only a page long, and b) should have been proof-read to
> within an inch of it's life many, many times over. WHAT THE HELL?!

The person who sent it is a marketing person - a field that should have 
people in it who write what they mean and need to communicate effectively.

But yeah, on a CV is particularly bad.  One thing I was taught to look 
for when reviewing applications was sloppy handwriting, too.

> We had another amusing one, actually... Instead of listing all the
> skills he DOES have, he listed all the skills he DOES NOT have. (??!)

That's kinda weird.

> In fact, on closer inspection, what he *actually* did was make a
> bullet-point for each requirement in the job spec. It's just that most
> of them here "no experience with X", which made it seems like a list of
> non-skills.

Ah, that makes more sense (though still a bad thing to do).  When doing a 
cover letter and a custom CV, it's generally recommended that you tie 
your CV to the job requirements by using key words and phrases from the 
job posting.

So maybe he was trying to "beat" the automated system.  But in a very 
ineffective way.

> My boss nearly replied to the job agent pointing out that the CV had
> missed out the non-skill of "CV writing"...

LOL

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