The Idiot Parade
I get a lot of CVs where I work; there's a certain air of desparation about unsolicited job applications. It's been a veritable freakshow of how someone can do the absolutely worst job of presenting themselves; in many cases it can be something of a challenge looking through a CV for signs that the person it purports to describe may one day have had a brain.
I'm not being mean, I'm not. If you were applying for a job at an open source consultancy would you attach your CV in .exe format?
Permit me to take a random sample of quotations from just one CV I got today:
I'm also Cisco uncertified (CCNA)What, is it fashionable to list on one's CVs the things they cannot do? I think I'll add a line to my CV saying that I am entirely unqualified to perform as midwife. More, from the
language skills:
Native language is Arabic. All School years and College instruction language was English. Read and write English very fluent. My conversation skills are as much as I read and write English. I can deal with French but kind a weak. I traveled to the United States and Canada three times during the last five years and was able to communicate and interact without any problem at all.For varying interpretations of "fluent", I suppose...