As slowly begins to take hold, applications from summer students and college graduates looking for work will soon be gracing the desks of insurance companies everywhere - and undoubtedly a few of those will leave eyes rolling in disbelief.
It is a given that these fresh faces will need some polish to fit in to the realities of the workplace, and not everyone will shine in the interview process. But judging by these applications, featured in a recent compilation by Thought Catalog, they were unlikely to make it past round one.
A need for quality references
Applicants were asked to please provide at least two different personal references that are not your immediate family.
Contact 1: Miss June Juiceberg. Relationship: Mother
Contact 2: Mark Markster. Relationship: Mah boo
Strong strengths and skills
Under ‘strengths,’ a woman mentioned “God fearing” and under technical skills, “windows.”
Boosting the resume with college experience
As a favour for a cute barmaid, a man delivered her resume to the ‘right people’ in his company. One of the bullet points under her experience section was that she had worked on a group paper in college with “both a table of contents AND an index.”
A boy’s best friend is his mother
This was on a written application:
“Why do you want to work here?”
“My mom says I need a job”
“Do you have your own transportation?”
In different handwriting: “I will drive him.”
Most of the application was filled out in the mother’s handwriting, she picked up and dropped off the application, and she called several times wondering why her son did not get an interview. (continued.)
#pb#
A proofreader needed
While taking resumes for a replacement, one applicant wrote, “I got laid in March,” instead of “I got laid off in March.” Her cover letter was framed and hung up in the office.
Tolerant, but apparently not knowledgeable
Last year when hiring a customer service rep: “Work well with ethnics and people of a different race.”
Looks matter, right?
One man wrote that he was voted “campus cutey” by the girls at his university, and attached a link.
What resume or interview left you laughing or agape in disbelief?
