People put their high school on their CV? Why? I haven't even included my university for most of my career—it just hasn't been relevant.
I applied to an insurance data entry job to fill the gap. It was Q4 2019 and I'd been in the workforce since 2008. Lots of tech support including big-boy serious-business firewall stuff. I think the application asked if I had a high school diploma, but I figured it was just a cursory formality. Naturally, the background check company pops up, wanting to "verify" my high school diploma. It was a home school diploma, in Texas, where home schooling is completely unregulated except for a one-liner statute declaring home school diplomas equivalent to normal high school diplomas. There's nothing to verify.
In the end, I had to get my mother on the line with these people so she could . . . tell them she really did home school me. And they were like, "cool thanks" and pushed through my background check. I mean, she could have been anybody! It's not like they validated anything. If they were checking something that was actually a big deal, that could have been mildly scandalous or something.
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I asked him in the interview if he thought anyone reads all of his lengthy resume, and if he thinks a typing contest from nearly 15 years prior is an important detail for potential employers to know about him. He said he likes to be thorough.
I did not recommend hiring him.
The interview reflected the resume in many ways. He had experience that aligned to the role. Most questions received extremely long answers that didn't necessarily give me more information than a much shorter one would have...and I say this as someone who prefers to ask open-ended questions that get the candidate talking. It was just endless fluff and exposition that didn't really go anywhere or add anything.
He was nominally qualified, but I could not imagine working with him given how he communicated in his resume and interview. I also didn't want to inflict his communication style on clients, as he would have had to interact with clients directly in the role.
He had helpfully removed details under his old jobs. His resume reflected his communication style. I recommended hiring him.
[Edit] I should add that I have had candidates that I really wanted to hire but were later rejected for having misinformation on their application form or in their CV. This was in FinTech.