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Rule #1, never let anybody else touch your CV/resume. Allow others to proof read or make suggestions certainly but all keystrokes on the page should have come

• ed_blackburn 14y ago
  After graduating I wrote to nearly 100 companies it cost me a fortune in postage. I never heard from any of them. I decided to call one up because I was shocked I didn't get a response, such was the fit between my previous university placement and the job spec. Cue an awkward conversation. A polite lady candidly told me that I clearly hadn't proof read my CV because in the third paragraph it read 'I am a smelly cunt' randomly in the text. Presumably a prank gone wrong. Clearly someone had doctored my CV in my flat or in the labs and I'd not proof read it. I would have been embarrassed but I was too devastated. Needless to say, I picked myself up but not before I edited my CV!
• mason55 14y ago
  I had a candidate in last week and I asked about some experience he had listed on his resume. He said he wasn't too experienced with what I was asking about so I specifically pointed to two positions his resume said he had and his reply was that the recruiter must have changed the job titles from what they actually were. He was a good candidate but not quite what we were looking for and we both wasted an hour of our day. The only upside was that I was already looking for a reason to stop working with that recruiter.