Daily Dose of Dumb
For your reading pleasure, the following are items that appeared in actual resumes and cover letters:
- “Please don’t misconstrue my fourteen jobs as ‘job-hopping.’ I have never quit a job.”
- “It’s best for employers that I not work with people.”
- “I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreadsheet progroms.”
- “Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.”
- “The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous employers.”
(Sources: Fortune Magazine, Idiots at Work by Leland Gregory)