Woman accidentally leaves this one little mistake on her CV before applying for more than 20 jobs

Job hunting can be rough. Trawling through page after page of job listings, trying to imagine yourself in different roles and wondering if you could convince potential employers (and also yourself) that you'd be right for the job. We spend hours toiling over our CVs, making sure to list all our relevant skills and having an internal battle about whether to leave in the fact that you were the vice president of the debating club in year 11.

For 20-year-old student Emma Dukes, she was on the search for a part-time job to earn some cash on the side while studying. The Brit is a journalism student at Winchester and started her job search by looking through the popular job listing website Indeed. But after a productive day of applying for twenty jobs or so, her stomach dropped as she realised she'd left a mistake in the CV she'd just sent out to everyone.

When making her appeal to tout herself as a promising employee, she accidentally also let every single prospective employer know that she was vegan. Taking to Twitter to describe the ordeal, she said she's now "literally the definition of ‘DID YOU KNOW I’M VEGAN".

Now, there's nothing wrong with being vegan – that's her choice and hey, it's actually much better for the environment – but they do have a certain reputation of being annoyingly vocal with their lifestyle choice.

"So, I was applying for a vegan cafe on Indeed and you can do an ‘about me/message’ to the employer kind of thing," Emma told Unilad. "So mine generally says ‘I’m a student but can work full time over summer etc’ and it automatically sends it to every employer."

"I added ‘oh and I’m vegan!!’ to it for the vegan cafe application and the next morning I went to apply for other jobs and all of a sudden thought ‘oh God did I change it’, so went to apply for a job as a test and the bottom still said, ‘oh and I’m vegan’!"

This is the message she sent out to accompany the CV file:

The enthusiasm with the double exclamation points kills me.

"So I have no idea how many people I sent it to but I apply for a lot of jobs every day (student life) so yeah," she said. "I applied for the vegan cafe in the evening the day before so I can imagine I applied for a fair amount more jobs later that evening."

It certainly does make you cringe that she overlooked that part of her applications. Who knows what the people who received the application thought about it too! The tweet attracted quite a lot of attention, with many people responding with their own stories. And it seems it's an easy mistake to make.

Luckily, Emma could laugh at herself in the situation and powered on with her job search the next day (after fixing the message, of course).

Good luck with the applications Emma!