I’m only going to say this once
Dear dear applicant,
When applying for a job kindly please note the following (and mind you, I’m not even HR):
- Please… for the love of God… PUH-LEASE take the time to create an e-mail id for yourself that is some formal variation of your name. I can’t take anymore of the casual/funky/cool e-mail ids of the world!
- Don’t assume you know me! You don’t! There is no credit here… you don’t get to send me an excessively casual friendly e-mail asking about life, calling me honey and oh btw have your CV in there somewhere!!
- I don’t care much for cover letters, but even if this is my private e-mail and even if you know about this vacancy through friends, please have a little courtesy and take the time to write something, anything, in the body of the e-mail in which you’ve attached the CV. Don’t give me the impression that you are Frisbee free-style tossing the document in my direction!!
Lotsa love,
A potential boss!
jessyz said,
June 21, 2009 at 1:18 pm
*Nods head in agreement.*
Juka said,
June 21, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Jessyz: Believe me, I’m the tolerant supportive variety, but by the 20th CV it starts getting to you!
OpeRon® said,
June 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Woah.. someone is taking charge
I totally agree with you, It is painful how people can be professionally inappropriate most of the time .. I Toh-Tally agree with you ..
You’ll make a wonderful boss ..
Juka said,
June 21, 2009 at 4:19 pm
OR: Where are you?!!! I hope the fates have been kind
Yeah, a little strung out. Awww sweet as usual! I want to see more of you on the blogs!
nawawy said,
June 22, 2009 at 2:18 pm
yes totally agree..dody…soso..el king..princess…ekbaro ba2a ya 3alam…do them a favour copy and paste your note here and reply back to all
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m@hdeTo said,
June 22, 2009 at 5:42 pm
.. and please please please if you do show up 30 minutes late without a valid excuse and I was kind enough not to send you home. Don’t take whats coming at you personally! you already demonstrated a very unpleasant personality treat and its only fair I am gonna squeeze you harder than I usually do.
ibhog said,
June 22, 2009 at 8:14 pm
they wrote ‘honey’ in the mail ?!!
that’s overly ludicrous, I mean if the least sort of this happens to me I’d feel very obliged to write back a full-fledged-link-ready tutorial on how to write a formal email, let aside write a CV with the a cover letter.
And if I don’t have the time, I’ll ask the sender to look for that tutorial and resend me.
Mesh ha3rof askot I mean .. da hays3ab 3alaya aslan!
The problem is that some employers hire such calibers.
n said,
June 23, 2009 at 12:09 am
i’m acting HR manager, you should see the stuff i come across!
Juka said,
June 23, 2009 at 8:08 am
Nawawy: I didn’t have the time and needed to rant.
Mahdeto: AIWA!!! I’ve had people show up on a different day all together!
ibhog: Yes, I’ve been called “honey” and “ya gamila” and “teslameelly ya 2ammara” like WTH!!! I get we have a friend in common but that’s just ridiculous!
N: Poor you! You have ALL my sympathy! Would love to hear the stories though.
Mo-ha-med said,
June 23, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Teslamili ya amara?? No bloody way!! I would be tempted to have thrown out by security for sexism…
I did create a ‘more formal’ email address when I went to college (a decade ago! Eeek!) – given that my previous one was ‘abdul-gabbar’, a once-funny nickname (given that I was all small and nerdy) that stuck for way too long. Not sure an employer would’ve gotten the joke..
Juka said,
June 23, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Mo: *sigh* I know!! I honestly have no clue where they are coming from!!
jessyz said,
June 24, 2009 at 6:03 am
and please don’t attach a mug shot with ur resume
Juka said,
June 24, 2009 at 8:20 am
Jessyz: YES! You’d think yours was a reasonable request