Anything wrong with this job application?

AcidHell2 said:
Not really, I'll be (missing word) the first admit I'm not good at spelling or punctuation. However, I will always doble check, then get someone else who is good at grammer to have a read though and check it for me. When you'r applying for a job and you have time is it really that hard to get someone else to check it for you?
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I checked for you :D as I was bored.
 
You can't get a second chance to make a first impression, and unfortunately, in this case, the first impression is a bad one. The applicant made no attempt to use proper grammar and spelling, and it would have been relatively easy to have gotten help to do so.
 
Spie said:
Can anyone work out why this person is unlikely to even get an interview?
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Because having worked in the computer industry several times before he seems unable to distinguish between Batteries and Computers......hardly top notch hardware recognition :D

.......oh, and of course the myriad of other areas already posted!!
 
Too formal.
Things like 'mists of time' isnt something you'd write to a prospective employer. Its something you'd use in a letter to a mate. It could be seen a lazyness.


Might have already been answered already, but how many applications do you get anyway? Loads?
 
I think the applicant should have tried harder, I mean there is quite a few errors in the application and in this day and age with spell checkers that should not happen. If I was applying for anywere I would take my time and proof read what I've done hell even sending emails I try and use good grammer and check all mistaked, just the other day I was sending a letter to ask about courses at a college and I took quite a while to make it perfect. I try to keep my posts on the forum to the standard of everything else, I've got some work to do still though.
 
willhub said:
I think the applicant should have tried harder, I mean there is quite a few errors in the application and in this day and age with spell checkers that should not happen. If I was applying for anywere I would take my time and proof read what I've done hell even sending emails I try and use good grammer and check all mistaked, just the other day I was sending a letter to ask about courses at a college and I took quite a while to make it perfect.
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Quoted just to preserve the grammar and spelling mistakes :D
 
Scuzi said:
The style it is written in is rather laid back which isn't typical of an application letter but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The guy sounds genuine and from what I've read he sounds worthy of at least an interview. He doesn't come across as a pretentious ***** like a lot of people do in their application letters, he sounds like a genuinely decent chap.

Give him an interview, I say :)
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I thought as much, If anything, he seems a little over confident and slightly desperate?

Not too sure, definately seems over confident though.
 
6thElement said:
Quoted just to preserve the grammar and spelling mistakes :D
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:(, I dont type my posts in word for the spell checker, I know I should and sometimes I dont proof read and above was one of those cases, I know I should have especially in this thread were everyone is proberbly looking for spelling and grammar mistakes lol.
 
willhub said:
I think the applicant should have tried harder, I mean there is quite a few errors in the application and in this day and age with spell checkers that should not happen. If I was applying for anywere I would take my time and proof read what I've done hell even sending emails I try and use good grammer and check all mistaked, just the other day I was sending a letter to ask about courses at a college and I took quite a while to make it perfect. I try to keep my posts on the forum to the standard of everything else, I've got some work to do still though.
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quoted just because your a year late :p
 
willhub said:
:(, I dont type my posts in word for the spell checker, I know I should and sometimes I dont proof read and above was one of those cases, I know I should have especially in this thread were everyone is proberbly looking for spelling and grammar mistakes lol.
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How about the repeated use of "should have"? What does that have to do with proof reading?
 
I missed this first time round :)
Apart from punctuation and grammar he is clearly a liar because he said that his first PC he built was a 386SX25 which just so happens to be the first one I built.
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.
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.

He's also applying for 3 different positions which hardly makes him seem like he's ideal for any of them - any job will do it seems!
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Perhaps for someone his age but in my case if its the 3 jobs that have been up recently I have experience in all of them.
I've built PC's for nearly 20 years but still learning.
I've dealt with many suppliers in foreign countries.
I have lots of experience with warehouse tracking.
There again I am old.
 
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