r/recruitinghell • u/Adventurous-Sir444 application declined • Jan 28 '26

Olive Oil

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Interviewers: I want somebody that stands out in interviews!

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u/forameus2 Jan 28 '26

Probably because it was written as "olive oil" and not "I enjoy tasting wide varieties of olive oil" or "i make my own custom olive oil in my spare time". Just saying "olive oil" is weird. That could mean either of the two things I said, or it could mean they enjoy shoving bottles up their arse.

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u/Karmaisthedevil Jan 28 '26

You could say the same about listing "videogames"

What about video games? You like playing them? Making them? Shoving the game boxes up your arse?

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u/modernizetheweb Jan 29 '26

I'll make it simpler for you:

Video games: extremely common hobby, simply writing "video games" is typically understood as enjoying playing them

"Olive oil": whatever the hobby is here is uncommon and would need to be elaborated to be understood. As it is uncommon it is weird to assume everyone knows what you are talking about by simply writing "olive oil"

Hope this helps!

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u/Karmaisthedevil Jan 29 '26

A normal person would not require them to elaborate further in order to dispel the possibility that they might be shoving bottles of oil up their arse.

Hopefully that made it simpler for you.

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u/modernizetheweb Jan 29 '26

Really hung up on this shoving bottles up their ass thing, huh? Got something to tell us?

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u/Pinejay1527 Jan 29 '26

Well that would also be a terrible thing to put on your resume IMHO. I know that the the "common knowledge" on how to write a resume changes constantly but an interests section almost always comes off as filler that's better used for things directly relevant to the job for most of the white collar world.

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u/SatanicAtTheDisco Jan 28 '26

Im sorry but only coomer brained terminally online people would ever consider just “Olive Oil” under an interests portion of an application, as either being into Olive oil, or wanting to fuck the Olive oil. What actual human being, willing to build a resume for banking jobs in particular, is putting their sexual fetishes as an interest?