Applying for jobs is tough. Reworking your resume, writing up a cover letter, making sure you qualify, making sure you sound personable and fun, making sure you attach all the right files, and all of that before the hardest part: waiting to hear if you actually got an interview or not.
If you mess up any of those steps, it can feel like the end of the world — especially if you do it the way that one TikTok user did.
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TikTok user @jacqupot shared a pretty mortifying mistake he made applying for a job in a viral video.
“That time I was applying for my DREAM job at my DREAM company but accidentally submitted a PDF of my STD test results as my cover letter,” he captioned the video of him lip-syncing to the lyrics “I wish I had a time machine.”
After the video went viral, he took the time to explain what exactly had happened.
“This was at the height of the pandemic. I found this job, it was like a dream job, you know when you find a job and you’re like, ‘oh my god, if I get this job, this would solve all my problems,'” he explained in a follow-up video. “Yeah, kind of like that.”
“I drafted a beautiful cover letter, updated my resume, and applied,” he went on, but added, “I monumentally screwed up.”
“I accidentally attached my STD results, which I had received the same day,” he said. “I have ADHD so I tend to multi-task a lot, so that’s probably where everything went wrong,” he went on. “Thankfully my tests were all negative.”
“I never heard back from the company,” he continued.
“I’m probably blacklisted somewhere. Probably there’s an HR note being like ‘do not interact,'” he joked. “I decided to share it because I wanted to destigmatize STD checks and sexual health,” he explained. “I figured this is a good story so people feel less anxious over their own mistakes,” he added.
You can watch his video right here! It’s awesome that he’s got such a great sense of humor about the whole situation.
Last Updated on April 22, 2022 by Rae Batchelor
