A list of the 10 most alarming CV blunders has been revealed by specialist recruitment consultancy IntaPeople.
Included in the top 10 is a candidate who named ‘sun tanning’ as his favourite sport, and an individual who decided it would be beneficial to type her entire CV in capital letters.

The list of fatal errors follows damning research from IntaPeople regarding the quality of CVs currently being submitted by jobseekers. After examining 600 CVs earlier this month, the company found that more than a quarter (29%) contained serious spelling or grammatical mistakes.

The top ten CV hiccups are as follows:

1.)    Under his ‘Key Attributes’, one jobseeker thought that it would be wise to put ‘BMW owner’ and ‘steely blue eyes’.

2.)    One candidate chose to use an expanded picture of his face as the background for every page of his CV.

3.)    One individual submitted a CV spanning 20 pages. If that wasn’t worrying enough, 19 of the 20 pages included his top 10 favourite singles,...