Every once in a while we get a job application so screamingly inappropriate as to mae us consider alerting the police to the whereabouts of a maniac on the loose. Long time visitors to Welcome to Optimism may recall a post a while back on this topic. Oh, how we still laugh about this with Selfish Natalie, our Head of HR.

This week we recevied possibly the most inappropriate job application for any job, any where, at any time. We’re pretty broad minded here, some might even say laissez-faire, but what would lead someone to think it a good idea to put on the front of his CV a big colour photo of the burning twin towers about to be struck by the second jet, coupled with a ‘humorous’ caption?

What are we supposed to infer from this? Hey, here’s one funny guy. He’s not afraid to take risks, to laugh at terrorism. He sounds like our kind of person. Hire him immediately and pay him extra!

In fact, the conclusion we draw is that this is a job application from a crazy person. Crazy in a medical way, a ‘seek professional help urgently’ way. Not in any sort of good way.

The accompanying letter continues the amusing ‘death’ theme:

In order to stay alive I would apreciate an apropriat income to meet my living costs in the most expensive city of the World. Boring advertising is killing me, something needs to be done. I help us by you letting me enter.

The CV is also a winner.

soft skills

take much plesure in Teamwork, like to improvise, intercultural openness

(Presumably particularly with regard to extremists of all kinds.)

The ‘leisure interests’ section of the CV is tradtionally where people list a bunch of bullshit hobbies that they’ve tried once in order to make themselves sound like a well-rounded human being.  But this guy really goes for it.

hobbys

sports (capueira,underwater rugby,soccer), dancing, film&cinema,travelling, painting&art, improvised acting, drivers license (car)

Capuiera?! (Presumably he means capoeira, the brazilian martial art/dance thing. Oh yeah.)Underwater bloody rugby? Underwater?! Improvised acting?! Sweet Jesus. And you have to love the addition of ‘car’ in brackets, just in case you thought his licence was for a power mower or helicopter.

Anyone out there want to hire him? I think we’ll probably pass.