The 10 interests/hobbies you just DON'T want to put on your CV!!

As it is a Friday and it is always good to have a laugh on Fridays I thought I would share some mad, wacky and strange ' interest's, that I have come across on CV's this week. These are all definitely classified as "don't put these interests on your CV" :

1. Chinese Folk Dancing
2. Dog Surfing (???)
3. Painting toy soldiers from the Crimea War
4. Abnormal psychology of sharks
5. Ladybirds (??)
6. Medieval Re-enactment Society
7. Vampires
8. Collecting Tea Pots
9. Body Piercings
10. Collecting Fighting Boomerangs

I would like to point out that a) these are all from real CV's; b) I have no problem with any of them as interests/hobbies (the vampire one did worry me a little though!), but just don't ever put them on your CV and finally c) don't be surprised if they give people the wrong impression of you!!!!

So all you recruiters, who read many CV's each day  - what is the wierdest ones you have come across??

Comments

[Peggy McKee]

I had a candidate that raised boa consticters (sp?) and put that as a hobby on his resume. I am not sure that my hiring companies - medical diagnostics, laboratory equipment suppliers find that hobby as an attractive selling point for a candidate. I find that hobbies can and usually are knock out points. Don't put anything that is controversial there!