Some strange things get mentioned in resumes and when careers blogger Alison Green of AskaManager asked subscribers to name the strangest things they had seen on a CV or resume, she had to list 30.

But we were able to cull the 30 to 10 of the best. Here we go:

1. The entry level person requested to say something about themselves, requesting the potential employer to "just Google me". As if they weren't going to. No interview.

2. A language query resulted in the applicant saying he spoke "Pirate". Elaboration was called for and the request for further information resulted in the applicant saying he spoke with a lot of "arrr's".

3. A young woman who explained on her resume that she had a bachelorette degree. Wondering if it was a typo, she confirmed that she indeed meant a bachelorette degree because she was a woman, not a man. Duh.

4. The Lenny Kravitz reference. " One of the so-called accomplishments was ‘Met Lenny Kravitz.’ We had a laugh at that, because WTF?! It had absolutely nothing to do with the job or the industry that we were in. And, I mean, he just met the dude, he didn’t work with him or anything.That’s absolutely not an ‘accomplishment’ even if you’re trying to break into the recording business or something!"

5. Those love letters. "“A college student applied for a summer internship by sending us copies of love letters he wrote to his high school crush as a proof of his writing skills.”

6. A recipe. Your read correctly. In the 'resume' was the following:

1/2 cup working with individuals on their job skills

2 tsp crisis intervention 3 cups supervising staff

"And there were little clip art gingerbread men all over it. And I remember the paper being pink.No actual time spent in jobs (list of jobs at the bottom), or list of skills. It was up to us to figure out what to what the different measurements equated.”

7. An applicant who gave reasons why he had been fired from previous jobs, including one because his boss 'sucked'. The second was more troubling: "Fired because he was in jail for attempted murder. Yeah… we didn’t interview him. (In the resume, he did note that he was found ‘not guilty on a technicality.’ Not that he wasn’t actually not guilty, but found not guilty due to a technicality.)”

8. “I once got someone who listed ‘World’s Best Grandson’ under awards. He was the winner in 2003, and then again from 2006-2008."

9. The ransom note CV. "“I once received a resume that was fairly normal, along with a cover letter that was written as a ransom note (all the letters and words cut out of different magazines). I think the intent was to show creativity and humor, but it actually just felt a little creepy. No interview.”

10. The Bisexual reply: "“I will never forget the time we were hiring for a research assistant and indicated a preference for bilingual English/Spanish speakers. One applicant’s cover letter included: ‘I’m not bilingual or bisexual (that I know of).'”