Anything wrong with this job application?

On what front page?! I wasn't even here when this thread was going :p

Any more good application letters recently Spie? :)

dmpoole said:
He lives on a Campus at Uni and he's about 20 years old which makes him about 2 years old when the 386SX25 came out.
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He says he's 26 later in the letter.
 
dmpoole said:
I still don't think a lad of 8 would be building a DOS system with config.sys and autoexec.bat commands and MFM/RLL drives etc.
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He was probably being loose with his descriptions, badly worded like the rest of it. I think he just means his first computer was a 386 and was eager to get that into the mix. I'm 21, my first was also a 386, that would be about 1990 I think...
 
dmpoole said:
If he built it much later with parts from computer fairs then he would need knowledge of MFM and RLL hard drives.
Soundcards were just being made for 386's but CD drives didn't come out until around 95 because Encarta 95 was the first major CD (which retailed at £350).
What a fibber.
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I had a CD rom drive in 1992 (external SCSI one). Also I had machines with IDE drives in a lot before 1995, the last MFM drive I had was in a machine that was even old in 1993 when I was at college. It was an extremely out of date 286 Dell machine. Oh, and I had a soundcard as well around the same time, it was one of the first purchases I made as I was coming from an Amiga and liked messing around with sound.

By 1995 even CD writing technology was out, I either got my first burner in 1995 or 1996, a Ricoh one.
 
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gumbald said:
He was probably being loose with his descriptions, badly worded like the rest of it. I think he just means his first computer was a 386 and was eager to get that into the mix. I'm 21, my first was also a 386, that would be about 1990 I think...
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You were 4 years old when you got your first PC? I was 13 :p
 
Hahaha some of these are excellent :D

I also missed this the first time round, I wasn't very active back then :p

My Mum often shows me some hilarious applications she receives, some are quite obviously from people that are trying to stay on their job seeker's allowance.
 
Looks more like a poor cover letter
Grammar etc
No CV

Experience isn't really a problem as you have to start somewhere.
 
Well Im not going to kick the person who tries his/hers best and anyway, the application form could be crap but the persons ability could put some people to shame.

Therefore dont assume and knock every application that comes through your door.
 
Realist said:
the application form could be crap but the persons ability could put some people to shame.
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If they can't impress you in their application it'd be foolish to presume they would be any better in the real job.

I'm quite glad applications get hammered like this, it gives me confidence in the employers ability to separate the wheat from the chaff.
 
Wicksta said:
By 1995 even CD writing technology was out, I either got my first burner in 1995 or 1996, a Ricoh one.
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Of course you're right and I'm getting confused.
The first 1x Mitsumi's came out around 92?
Me and 4 mates bought the first 1x CDR burner in 1995 between us for £5000 and we needed 2 x 1 gig SCSI Hard drives to go with it which cost £1000 each.
One of the lads decided to pirate Encarta 95 and it just so happened that he was caught for phone phreaking and when they went in they found 30+ Encarta 95's on his table.
All the gear got confiscated and I lost £1400.
 
If every employer threw away every application form there would be no one to employ.

The best form of contact is always a straight forward interview and then if the applicant looks, feels ok then a trial would be on order, even a test day is a good idea.

To rubbish someone just because some people say "that application form looks crap" is just foolish.



Zefan said:
If they can't impress you in their application it'd be foolish to presume they would be any better in the real job.

I'm quite glad applications get hammered like this, it gives me confidence in the employers ability to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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Realist said:
The best form of contact is always a straight forward interview and then if the applicant looks, feels ok then a trial would be on order, even a test day is a good idea.
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Its the only way it's hard enough interviewing 5 people. Let alone several hundred.

Just put some effort into applications and get them checked. What's so hard about that.
 
dmpoole said:
Of course you're right and I'm getting confused.
The first 1x Mitsumi's came out around 92?
Me and 4 mates bought the first 1x CDR burner in 1995 between us for £5000 and we needed 2 x 1 gig SCSI Hard drives to go with it which cost £1000 each.
One of the lads decided to pirate Encarta 95 and it just so happened that he was caught for phone phreaking and when they went in they found 30+ Encarta 95's on his table.
All the gear got confiscated and I lost £1400.
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Blimey, that's not good! I was always worried about my burner as I used it for some dodgy things, like pirating Playstation games which hardly anyone did at the time (especially in my area). I think my CD writer cost about £500 when I got it, it was the first one I can remember being aimed at the consumer market and came with a SCSI card with a centronics connector. Thinking back it must have been 1995 as I had it at my parents house and I moved out that year.

Time flies. :eek:
 
All Im trying to say is dont be to harsh and throw people in the waist bin. There are good applicants out there and remember, some people cant put ideas, words onto paper but can do great things manually.
 
Wicksta said:
I think my CD writer cost about £500 when I got it, it was the first one I can remember being aimed at the consumer market and came with a SCSI card with a centronics connector. Thinking back it must have been 1995 as I had it at my parents house and I moved out that year.

Time flies. :eek:
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That would probably be the Toshiba and I bought mine from Millennium Computers (OCUK) but I think you'll find it was later than 95 because the 1x only came out in 95 (I remember it well because of the Encarta 95 incident but software has a tendency to be one year ahead).
When 4x came out the software was drag and drop (like nowadays) but in 95 you had to make an image of your files onto one hard drive and then burn the image to the £12 blank.
By the time the 4x Toshiba came out disks were around £2.

Realist said:
All Im trying to say is dont be to harsh and throw people in the waist bin. There are good applicants out there and remember, some people cant put ideas, words onto paper but can do great things manually.
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But when the job requires you to email customers or other businesses then its not a very good start.
 
dmpoole said:
That would probably be the Toshiba and I bought mine from Millennium Computers (OCUK) but I think you'll find it was later than 95 because the 1x only came out in 95 (I remember it well because of the Encarta 95 incident but software has a tendency to be one year ahead).
When 4x came out the software was drag and drop (like nowadays) but in 95 you had to make an image of your files onto one hard drive and then burn the image to the £12 blank.
By the time the 4x Toshiba came out disks were around £2.
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It was definitely a 1x Ricoh drive I had, that came in a nice retail box. It also had one of those CD caddy things. I have no idea where I got it from but it was mail order delivered to my parents house which would have been 1995. I remember media costing over £10 though, I used to buy TDK media (with a gold box if I remember). In fact I probably still have some of my old CDs somewhere.

EDIT: The HP 4020i even came out in 1995 (2x) and we had one of those at my place of work in 1996, I'd already had my Ricoh one a while by then and was amazed recording CDs at double speed. ;)

Apparently Yamaha also released a 4x recorder in 1995 too, the CDR100.

Ricoh introduced the first CD-RW drive in 1996.
 
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