Monday, December 12, 2011

Lawyer Resume Gaffes


Lawyer Resume Gaffes
Lawyers are professionals who practice law. They are indispensible part of court of justice. Lawyer resume gaffes can extend from the hilarious I’m good at murders to the innocuous vast experience in providing legal “dafts” Lets looks at possible blunders or mistakes in lawyers resume
  • I am a lawyer of criminal nature
  • I want to be the greatest cheap attorney
  • I love counseling my counsel through counseling
  • Sometimes I don’t solicit with solicitor’s views but accept it
  • Special Skill as expertise in arguing hence became a  lawyer
  • Degree "Horns" in Law
Some other interesting mistakes and blunders are as follows:
  • I believed that law will take its own course hence enrolled to a law course
  • I love cross eye examination
  • Never won a single case in court of law
  • Special skills: can argue in any language
  • I believe all in-laws.
  • Good at presenting “suitcases” 
Lawyers are a respected part of the society , such unintentional mistakes on resumes may tarnish the image of the lawyer. Don't commit such mistakes and if you have seen such gaffes or blunders in your experience as lawyer do feel free to post them here.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Driver Resume Gaffes


Driver Resume Gaffes 
Drivers are hard working professionals who are experienced in driving motorized vehicles like trucks, jeeps, cars. They are expected to exercise extreme care while providing transport services. They are responsible for life and belongings of not only themselves but those that they carry or on road safety. Selecting a good driver is crucial for regular services as well as maintaining logistic support for companies and for public transport institutions. We often come across resume mistakes by drivers trying to impress the interviewers with their stunt skills rather than safe driving records. Lets looks at possible blunders or mistakes which can be avoidable.
  • My license is about to expire so I need job quickly
  • Special skills as I can drive girls crazy
  • I can drive anything from cycles to rockets on road
  • Proven track and fielding record
  • Exhaust experience in pressing clutch and brakes in a traffic jam
Many other gaffes are as follows
  • Skilled in cutting lanes on a highway
  • Escaped without getting caught and fined last week
  • Good rapport with policemen patrolling on highway
  • Can drive for 24 hours without accelerating
  • Unique achievement of driving cars in reverse direction 
  • Expertise in driving trucks in any direction except water
Drivers must take special care to avoid resume gaffes and resume mistakes. On the other hand if you are hiring such a driver being negligent of such gaffes may cause you your life or companies reputation.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Advertiser Resume Gaffes


Advertisers are professionals, who employ advertising as a tool to communicate with people to sell a product. Advertisers are expected to be creative, indigenous, highly motivated and above all media and communication savvy. These advertisers sometimes fail to rightly “advertise” their own resumes. Advertiser resume gaffes are full of “creative” mistakes. Some hilarious gaffes from advertisers resume can be as follows:
  • I’m good at mouth publicity
  • Worked for 24 hour TV AIDS channel
  • I designed the Quarterly After-Christmas Sale ad
  • I left job because I was expected to create advertisements from early in the morning to late evening
  • I studied from "1899 to 2002"
  • I can advertise anything anywhere.. I even have tattoo of “**** Mart” on my forehead
Some other funny gaffes said to be found on advertisers resumes are as follows: 
  • I’m good at “copyrighting”
  • Kindly communicate after 8.30 pm as my employer doesn’t know I’m looking for job
  • I can’t think anything but advertising
  • Living with mom awaiting divorce
  • My best Advertisements were designed in the loo
  • I love mixing with models working in ads

These are just few samplers of what advertising resume gaffes one might come across. Be careful not to commit such mistakes

Construction Resume Gaffes


Construction resume gaffes are related to construction professional’s resume. these include construction worker, construction estimator, construction engineer, construction laborer. construction domain is a very specialized domain dealing with building of highways, bridges, towers, etc. gaffes in construction can be very comical.

Following is the list of gaffes of construction professionals
·         “experience : specialized in construction of tombs”
·         “name: I am bob the builder”
·         “skills: specialized in building buildings”
·         “key skills include concrete communication skills”
·         “strength: ability to lift 2004 pounds with crane and 1 pound with hands”
·         “educations: did not attend any school and graduated with distinction”

Some of truly hilarious gaffes related to construction resume gaffes include

·         “proficient in drilling with drills both hand powered and electric powered and neumatik powered”
·         “very wise and knowledgeable in carpentry and masonry and worked as construction worker”
·         “experience : worked on orders of site supervisor, usually disagreeing with him very often”
·         “achievements: always reprimanded and commended by chief foreman”
·         “position held: worked as chief construction estimator on a honors post”
·         “expertise include working without any safety equipments on place”

List of really stupid gaffes are,

·         “experience in construction of special sewers”
·         “can work for 23.5 hours continuously digging grave, proficient in graveyard construction”
·         “constructed buildings worth 900 billion dollars”
·         “physical skills include bullying people, have fights, in totality I am a macho man, fit for heavy duty works
·         “skills: profiency in labor pains as I worked as construction labor”
·         “objective: want to build a building which build on mars and building can seen from earth topmost building”
·         “experience : worked on moon construction site in weightless conditions”

Construction professional are real workers instrumental in building the world around us. A construction resume gaffe portrays them negatively. Effort has to be taken to avoid these gaffes or blunders or mistakes for a highly rewarding career in field of constructions

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Marketing Resume Gaffes


marketing resume gaffes are blunders or mistakes you will find in marketing professional’s resume. marketing is one best technique to identify a customer, its liking, satisfying the customer, and retaining the customer thereby increasing the market share. there is huge demand of marketing professionals in the job market, particularly professional with good sales and persuasive skills, creating rapport with the customers.
Marketing professional are bound to commit mistakes in their resume which may ultimately result in gaffes.
Some of the examples of distinctive examples marketing resume gaffes highlighting their skills in a comical way are as follows
·         “special skills: highly very persuasive in anything and everything I do, including my employer, my boss, my wife , friends etc”
·         “target oriented even though I am not a shooter!”
·         “highly experienced in selling condoms”
·         “expertise in online marketing in spite of not having operating knowledge of computers”
·         “very very very good at liesioning with customers for long time”
·         “very broad experience in marketing ranging from diapers to boxers, microscope to telescope, stain gun to suv, lots and lots of other areas which cannot be accommodated here, please give me interview call and I’ll give you the comprehensive list”

some of the hilarious marketing gaffes can be highlighted as below
·         “marketing skills helped me in finding my true love”
·         “contact details: marketing_condoms@**********.com
·         “reason for leaving last job: took  maternity leave for my wife”
·         “experience in marketing numbers”
·         “experience in b2b, b3b, a2z etc marketing techniques”
·         “recicieved a third hand lamborghini from my customer as commission of marketing”
 list of marketing resume gaffes continues
·         “very good at marketing relationship management to prospective divorce seelers”
·         “before marketing I write marketing plan which includes corporate plan, key accounts plan, functional plan, segment plan, business plan and then execute it myself”
·         “experience : MBA –(managing business in australasia combining  asia and america)”
·         “special skills: preserving , persevering, networking, logical, anal-ysing , beliver, eve teasing ,eaves dropper, charismatic”
·         skills of selling and marketing products  by storytelling”
·         “my grandmother is marketing professional, so I have nearly 62 years of experience even though my age is 20 years”

 some rib tickling marketing resume blunders are,

·         “Edcucation :diploma in marketing and liasioning even though I am bachelor”
·         “experience: hardcore software marketing professional with 0.1 years of experience in marketing pirated hardcore software through mobile marketing”
·         “hobbies: love to cook continental , italinas , Spanish, French”
·         “mono aural linguistic skills in 6 languages”
·         “Background: 12 cat years experience in marketing cat food, cat suit, cat fight, literally everything related to cats, in short cat marketing professional”
·         “objective : wanted to be greatest f1 driver , but had to settle for mediocre marketeeer”

 some of the truly hilarious marketing resume mistakes are,

·         “ experience : successfully marketed ufo (unanimate flying objects)”
·         “Hobbies: good hobbies none , bad hobbies are gambling, poly dating (dating with many many girls), boozing, smoking etc (please refer separate list attached)
·          “education : have taken same courses several times to reinforce my knowledge with lowest grade”
·         “ key strength: farting as I eat lot of beans, I love beans”
·         “salary expectations: 100 million dollars (negotiable)”
·         “additional skill: procrastinate lot of time”

 some truly insane gaffes are as follows,

·         “achievements:  dancing to my wife’s tune”
·         “ experience: worked as a butcher”
·         “experistize in kamikaze marketing”

These some of numerous blunders you can find in a typical marketing resume full of gaffes.
These marketing resume gaffes can be well avoided by proof reading resume and reviewing and updating resume on a continual basis

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Designer Resume Gaffes

Resume Gaffes and Resume Blunders: Designer Resume Gaffes: Designer Resume Gaffes Designers are integral part of product design be it a car, tattoo or spacecraft. We expect the designers to be high...

Designer Resume Gaffes

Designer Resume Gaffes


Designers are integral part of product design be it a car, tattoo or spacecraft. We expect the designers to be highly creative and methodical in their work. We expect designers to commit least mistakes or blunders in anything they do.

Yet designers too are prone to commit mistakes in their resumes. Read these mistakes as a piece of entertainment but do learn to avoid such mistakes. I remember a fashion designer who once gave too many personal details including “ I'm a straight male”. 


Some of the top designer resume gaffes can be as follows:
  • Started working when I was in nursery.
  • I used to draw in paint books
  • I paint fences for free and I can morph faces of jerks on actress’s bodies on my PC
  • Good at curves, geometric shapes and ‘un geometric’ shapes
  • I can design websites but don’t know how to put them up on PC
  • I designed visiting cards for my mom and dad


Some designers make the usual gaffe of exaggerating on their resume. For example:
  • Successfully organized, managed, executed, succeeded, triumphed, vindicated 18000 fashion designing shows all over the world
  • Wide variety of experience in sales, marketing, manufacturing, supply chain management, railways, aviation
  • I have already got PHD (pretty hot deal) from one designer corporation but I’m more sympathetic towards your large organization
  • Designed boots for ALL men , women and animals
  • Peers call me inventor rather than designer and I humbly oblige


Writing irrelevant skills and strengths is a common mistake. For example one designer wrote I can stand on tripod , easel and can balance cloth hangers.

Designer resume may be full of such gaffes and blunders but make sure you avoid such mistakes. And yes if you know more such gaffes do feel to post them here.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Resume gaffes and resume blunders

Resume gaffes or resume blunders are unintentional mistakes which may be funny or innocuous but cause severe problems for the resume maker or the prospective job seeker. Resume mistakes can cost a prospective job seeker a excellent opportunity.


So what are gaffes and blunders? Gaffes or blunders are the acts which result from an unintentional error, often causing embarrassment to the creator. Blunders and mistakes have and will always be integral part of human nature as humans are always prone to commit errors. These gaffes or blunder though funny may damage your reputation.

Have you come across some wacky resumes blunders like:

  • Starting the resume with, do you need a champion 'sellsperson' or “By HIS Grace”
  • Education as graduated from "excellent university" or work experience of 10 years 'en grave digging' instead of engraving
  • Email addresses such as luvbeer or itsybitsy@someemailid.com
  • Use of excessive slang, my boss is a jerk coz my boss is a jerk
  • Reason for change as need to pay overdue debt hence finding a new job or my wife does not like my present job
Remember resume or a bio data or curriculum vitae can be a wonderful tool to secure a good job you are looking for. But resume gaffes or blunders can severely damage chances of getting a dream job.

This blog offers you examples that make you smile or are downright too funny yet help you learn WHAT NOT TO WRITE ON YOUR RESUMES. 
Do check our selection of resume gaffes section. Do prevent resume gaffes to get the dream job you are looking for.