Real Resume And Cover Letter Excepts

"Real Resume And Cover Letter Excepts"*

*These are taken from real resumes and cover letters and were printed in
Fortune Magazine:

1. I demand a salary commiserate with my extensive experience.

2. I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreadsheet progroms.

3. Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.

4. Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave.

5. Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions.

6. It's best for employers that I not work with people.

7. Let's meet, so you can ooh and aah over my experience.

8. You will want me to be Head Honcho in no time.

9. Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget details.

10. I was working for my mom until she decided to move.

11. Failed bar exam with relatively high grades.

12. Marital status: single. Unmarried. Unengaged. Uninvolved. No
Commitments.

13. I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse.

14. I am loyal to my employer at all costs...
Please feel free to respond to my resume on my office voice mail.

15. I have become completely paranoid, trusting completely no one and
absolutely nothing.

16. My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I possess no training in
meteorology,
I suppose I should try stock brokerage.

17. I procrastinate, especially when the task is unpleasant.

18. As indicted, I have over five years of analyzing investments.

19. Personal interests: donating blood. Fourteen gallons so far.

20. Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain store.

21. Note: Please don't misconstrue my 14 jobs as job-hopping. I have
never quit a job.

22. Marital status: often. Children: various.

23. Reason for leaving last job:
They insisted that all employees get to work by 8:45 a.m. every morning.
Could not work under those conditions.

24. The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous employers.

25. Finished eighth in my class of ten.

26. References: None. I've left a path of destruction behind me.
Received on Sat Mar 20 09:20:18 2010