True Horror Stories

A real list from a real employer in the IT industry

The person whose electronic submission broke into a wing dings font halfway through the text (I'm pretty leery of electronic submissions)
Any 10 page resume submissions
The person who had extensive "knewledge" of Oracle (we figured if knowledge is everything you know then "knewledge" is everything you ____ )
The person with the URL leading to the singing dancing web page.
Resumes with more than 10 three letter acronyms per line.
The application with no contact information.
The application with wrong contact information.
The application with just the cover letter.
Maniacal spontaneous laughter in the middle of interviews never gets you anywhere.
You have to say something in interview to get a job (I had one interview recently when I think there was a total of maybe 15 seconds of conversation by the candidate despite my best efforts)