True or false? A candidate sent his resume in the form of an oversized Rubik's Cube where the hiring manager had to push the tiles around to align the resume. He was hired.

That one is true. Unfortunately for job seekers who made these 12 mistakes, they were not given a call-back. CareerBuilder asked more than 2,200 hiring managers to share the most memorable and unusual applications that came across their desk:

1) Candidate called himself a genius and invited the hiring manager to interview him at his apartment.

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