Millhouse

I have one - in the third person. I put it on my CV as I discovered that recruitment agents would, as part of their pitch, write a few lines about each candidate before passing the short-listed CVs over to the client. When I saw the misrepresentive, factually incorrect and poorly written drivel that they were coming up with I decided to write my own and put it at the top of my CV. It then plays in to the core skills of a recruitment agent: copy-pasting.

In a nut shell, I am a control freak.

jackthehat

Shocking!

OleJanx

Electrical Information Science, eh? So that's you trained up with the bulldog clips and the D/C voltage in a quest for details in Guantanamo Bay is it?
Merely curious as this is a job title that could be used in many different ways.

Millhouse

Christ knows - I never understood it either. I pretty much tried to do navigate the whole thing by doing the easy options. I remember making an inverter - which was basically wrapping a wire around a magnet with a bitch of a hangover.

If you are really interested, it's all here

My engineering stint was for few months in a lab "designing" fibre optic things for undersea telecoms. To be honest it blew my mind and I spent my day either in hiding or sitting on the vibration testing machine.

OleJanx

How do you get a magnet drunk?

Millhouse

exactly. The mind boggles.

OleJanx

paca

this probably explains why my old internet was down alot

typical

Jings, I hadn't realised we did the same degree. I lasted six years in industry though...

scrubbedexpat141

You have to play the percentages.

90% of people in my job are complete spastics.

65%+ of people who write something about themselves as an intro have made 2-3 spelling mistakes and must have failed English Language at school....I'm not joking either, you'd be amazed at some of the stuff you see.

My favourite is when people can't spell the name of the company they work for.

The Dean

I just don't see the point of that opening paragraph, and writing it in the third person implies a pathetic attempt to imply (in the mind of the reader) that someone else has somehow endorsed the applicant.

I interviewed a guy whose CV included one a while back, and my first question to him was: "Who wrote this opening paragraph about you?".

I think he got my drift.........

kittycat1

surely that opening paragraph should be in your cover letter not in your actual CV?

scrubbedexpat141

I think I opened one of those once, wondered what it was, closed it and vowed never to read another one ever ever ever again.

Meow

I doubt anyone receiving 50 CVs a day will bother reading a covering letter.

I reckon CVs should have an opening summary, then brief details. Maximum of two pages and to the point. Who cares what anyone did 20 years ago and that they took an O level in woodwork in 1981?

scrubbedexpat141