Dozens of HR departments and recruitment agencies in Luxembourg have confirmed receiving a CV that is composed entirely of the candidate’s hyphenated family name.
The CV, which by one count contains 324 individual surnames, appears to come from a Spanish candidate, although some have pointed out that she might also come from Latin America.
“She’s got a nice photo, and she exhibits the sort of maniacal diligence and absurd attention to detail that we look for in our corporate officers,” said one recruitment offer from a Big Four firm. “However, as the entirety of her one-page CV is just her surname and includes no contact information, we have no way to invite her for an interview.”
“If anyone knows Mrs. Ana Maria López-Peña-Córdoba-Abeyta-Bernal-Arango-Carvajal etc., please have her contact us.”
A few days after the CV was submitted to the firms’ various application platforms, the candidate sent out a follow-up email. However, as her email address contains all her surnames and is 2538 characters long, it caused dozens of servers to crash and was subsequently dismissed as spam.
