# Humorous things you’ve seen in job postings or resumes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-things-you-ve-seen-in-job-postings-or-resumes/966393 "2022-06-17T19:41:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-things-you-ve-seen-in-job-postings-or-resumes/966393/21 "2022-06-18T17:13:32Z")
Years ago, while job hunting, I came across an online ad for a printing company, which specified that they were looking for someone ‘computer illiterate’. I sent them a message asking if that was a typo, and got a nice email back thanking me for pointing that out, with an invitation to send my CV (we don’t differentiate between resume and CV here, they’re all called a CV). I complied, and… got a reply back saying that they couldn’t open the file, could I resend it as a .jpg file? I’m not sure it was a typo… ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-things-you-ve-seen-in-job-postings-or-resumes/966393/22 "2022-06-18T17:14:10Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > As for me, I’m reminded of this tip: the best way to account for being laid off a job is to write that you were promoted to “fresh air inspector”. Sounds important. I always say I left by mutual agreement. I agreed to leave, and they agreed not to call security. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-things-you-ve-seen-in-job-postings-or-resumes/966393/23 "2022-06-18T18:12:49Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > I interviewed a candidate for a software internship who listed what level wizard he was in some online game as a resume item. > > He didn’t get the position. You were looking for a paladin? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-things-you-ve-seen-in-job-postings-or-resumes/966393/24 "2022-06-18T19:38:35Z")
I took an application from a person who had a record of _“Salt and Baddery”._ ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-things-you-ve-seen-in-job-postings-or-resumes/966393/25 "2022-06-18T19:41:02Z")
In the early 1980s I was News Director of a small TV station. It was so small that I pretty much **was** the news department. I received a resume from a recent college graduate. She listed as a reference **Studs Terkel** , who was an award-winning writer and historian, a well-known radio celebrity in Chicago, and just generally famous. It struck me as somewhat pretentious. Now, giving her the benefit of the doubt, perhaps she was somehow acquainted with Mr. Terkel, and perhaps he had offered himself as a reference for her, but I had no way of finding out, as she gave no method of contacting him in any event. Sure, I could have called her and asked for his number, but as I didn’t have any job openings anyway, and I had a 30-minute newscast to shoot, write and anchor every day, I didn’t think it was worth my time just to satisfy my curiosity. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-things-you-ve-seen-in-job-postings-or-resumes/966393/26 "2022-06-18T21:52:21Z")
> [@abcdefghij](#): > > You were looking for a paladin? If 1950s TV has taught me anything, it’s always good to have a Paladin around. Ironically, the company I work for now went through a phase where we were allowed to pick cute titles for our jobs, and we had a fair number of Wizards. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-things-you-ve-seen-in-job-postings-or-resumes/966393/27 "2022-06-18T23:14:08Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > A friend of mine was always irritated by advertisements that said things like “make up to $50,000 a year, or more!” Good, we’ve narrowed down the income range to any positive number. Heck, that doesn’t even narrow it down to a _positive_ number! ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-things-you-ve-seen-in-job-postings-or-resumes/966393/28 "2022-06-19T00:35:57Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > If I got that, I’d think that I was being subject to one of those experiments where they provide the same exact qualifications but alter something to study prejudices and bigotry (in this case, male versus female). I’d invite both in for an interview- I bet the female is just the guy in a wig. No there were substantive differences. IIRC there were differences in what they had studied. They were just a couple who thought it would be cute to do his’n’ hers resumes I think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-things-you-ve-seen-in-job-postings-or-resumes/966393.md?page=1)