(Psst. Best brush up on your humor skills.)
She listed her high school (her only education listed - so I suppose I misspoke earlier - she did have ONE education qualification listed) and it was local. I suppose she could have moved from elsewhere in Junior High.
This is interesting, and I didn’t know the actual definition of CV so ignorance fought. It is possibly worth noting that the Job Ad requested that resumes be sent in - not CVs but I suppose if the two terms are interchangeable in some places then this is nothing to get worked up about.
Further, I am fully willing to concede that the applicant was probably not dumb for referring to her CV in her cover letter and resume. Not spell checking either, on the other hand, could very well be an indication of dumbness.
I’m not local. Can I have the job anyway?
mutters quietly about “wardrobe allowances”
Eh, whatever. Some people find me hilarious.
Do you have skills? Are you willing to relocate? Can you run a spell check and set up a non-absurd e-mail for a job application?
Yes? You’re in.
Dear OP,
Thank you for your interested in opening a thread here in our Pit. We appreciate the time and effort you put into recording your thoughts and sharing them with the rest of us.
Unfortunately, at this time, we do not believe that your thread is a good fit for our board. While it is normally against policy to offer critique of submitted threads, in this case I would like to point out that as you were complaining about other peoples’ spelling and grammar mistakes, you committed a large number of similar mistakes yourself, including inappropriate usage of “adds”, “your”, and “poured”.
Thank you again for your interest, and we will certainly retain this thread for future reference. Best of luck in your future Pittings.
Must be a Friday. The Dope’s blood is up over a secretarial job somewhere in Canada. Perspective is not our strong suit.
Indeed I did, and to further compound the hilarity, I had no idea the ‘poured’ one was wrong! DOH!
However, in fairness to me, I’m not asking anyone to hire me for anything, and did point out the lameness of my OP right in the title.
It makes a nice change from all the talk about rape.
…and metal.
Metal rape week would be the perfect storm.
Now you’ve done it. Margin will be flyin’ in shortly.
Yes. No. Yes. Yes. When do I get my iPad?
And the perfect place for a Steely Dan soundtrack.
Or moved as a junior; typically one lists the high school from which one receives one’s diploma, and not earlier high schools one also attended.
Fully agree. I don’t dispute the main thrust of your complaints at all. Dumbness abounds.
The Executive Assistants school my parents wanted me to attend was a 3-year program and you came out business-fluent in at least two foreign languages (if you already passed one of the three they offered, you got to study the other two; if you passed two, they taught you the other one and sent you to the local official language school for another), with a good knowledge of labor laws, accounting, etc. I don’t remember the details, as it’s been 20 years, but it definitely went waaaaay beyond what your average “filing temp” needs (and I’ve been one, and done data entry, and been a receptionist, but it wasn’t in places where you were likely to need your mad German-speaking skillz).
One of Littlebro worries any time he’s interviewing again is clothing. If he ever gets a job where he’s got to wear anything more dressy than “jeans and a polo shirt” on a regular basis, that account would certainly go towards clothing - at least until he had enough of a work-appropriate wardrobe built up.
My husband has a clothing allowance with his job. On some occasions he is required to wear all black dress clothing. All of the staff, regardless of gender, that have that requirement have that allowance. But it is to be used on clothing only. They buy the clothes and submit the receipts for reimbursement.
This.
And let’s face it, you put an ad out for a receptionist job these days and you’re going to get inundated. Why? Because there are a lot of white collar professionals with college educations who are unemployed right now. And this is the type of job most anyone who’s worked in any type of white collar environment and has a college education thinks they can do.
You greet visitors, answer the phones, shuffle some papers. It’s a little more involved than that, of course, but that’s how many people view that type of job. And to be fair, I would like to know just what type of skills the job in OP would require that most college educated white-collar professionals couldn’t pick up with a little on-the-job training. I mean, what person who’s attended college at any point in the past 15-20 years doesn’t know how to use Microsoft Word or Outlook?
This makes sense - it’s not really the same for this position though - it really is just meant to be a perk so the person can get themselves something they want - if the wanted to spend it on therapeutic massage or yoga wear or a basket weaving class those would all be fine too. I just suggested that he open it up to include work clothing because I thought it was something people might like/need and consider a nice perk.
There were only two applicants as described above and one is getting an interview. The other isn’t but only because he’s an Egyptian national living in Egypt and while I’m sympathetic to his plight living in a war/riot/crap zone he couldn’t be hired even if he was the best fit - the job is too low level to get a justification through the government. (Employers have to justifying non-Canadians for jobs and unless it’s a high skill area it usually doesn’t fly.)