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Apr. 29th, 2005 12:33 pmSomeone mailed a cover letter and resume (if you could call it that) to our general helpdesk email address. The proper address to send resumes is ALL OVER THE JOB DESCRIPTION PAGE. Strike one.
Here's the text of the cover letter. I won't pain you by including the resume.
To whom it may concern,
I saw your add on the buliten board for jobs. I am forwarding my reume to
you for your review. Please look this over and hire me for any type of work
you have available. I live in Columbus, Indiana, but I drive to Indianapolis
all the time for school and various other reasons. Driving to Indianapolis
is not an inconvenice for me at all.
Thank you for your consideration
Dana Lastname
Uh... she obviously spell checked her resume (which has a list of every auto repair tool she has ever touched, and all her assembly and machining jobs nicely laid out, but NO computer experience) but didn't bother to spell check the cover letter email. Strike two! and a half!
So the consultant here on email duty asked the supervisor how to handle this. Advised we reply back, saying "please submit your information to the hiring email address, which is something@iu.edu." So we sent back that tidbit to this potential applicant.
The applicant immediately replied, with the following:
Hello,
This email address something@iuedu ou sent me is incomplete. Is there a .com .net or a .org
at the end?
Thank you
Dana
Strike THREE. You're fucking OUT. No job for you.
Here's the text of the cover letter. I won't pain you by including the resume.
To whom it may concern,
I saw your add on the buliten board for jobs. I am forwarding my reume to
you for your review. Please look this over and hire me for any type of work
you have available. I live in Columbus, Indiana, but I drive to Indianapolis
all the time for school and various other reasons. Driving to Indianapolis
is not an inconvenice for me at all.
Thank you for your consideration
Dana Lastname
Uh... she obviously spell checked her resume (which has a list of every auto repair tool she has ever touched, and all her assembly and machining jobs nicely laid out, but NO computer experience) but didn't bother to spell check the cover letter email. Strike two! and a half!
So the consultant here on email duty asked the supervisor how to handle this. Advised we reply back, saying "please submit your information to the hiring email address, which is something@iu.edu." So we sent back that tidbit to this potential applicant.
The applicant immediately replied, with the following:
Hello,
This email address something@iuedu ou sent me is incomplete. Is there a .com .net or a .org
at the end?
Thank you
Dana
Strike THREE. You're fucking OUT. No job for you.