How bosses get your CV all wrong

BOSSES are poor judges of character who are likely to get the wrong idea about you from your CV, research showed yesterday.

Employers draw the wrong conclusions in key personality areas, which could have affect your chances of being interviewed.

Gary Burns, of Wright State University in Ohio, US, asked recruiters to look at 37 CVs, paying close attention to what psychologists called the ‘big five’ personality traits – openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

He found that regardless of what the CVs said, bosses often overestimated applicants’ extroversion, making them more employable, and under-rated conscientiousness.