Job applications – be true to yourself
I swear to God this was a real speculative job application
“…I am affluent in Photoshop which I use as the basis of most of my design work, but I am also trained in Quark Xpress…
Working for a company that strives towards providing the dynamic services and marketing research for major retailers, and helping to inject different views and opinions into an already ever-changing environment, would truly encourage me as a designer, to really help demonstrate how important these aspects are in today's multicultural society. If given the chance with my unusual and striking design ideas I think I could convey them in a way which would inspire others to jump on board. ”
Which wouldn’t matter too much, if the applicant surrounded by her boxes of Photoshop software, had included samples of good quality relevant design work, but this was all I had to go on. Oh well, ten out of ten for spelling.
This has nothing to do with the picture – which was where I went with Xavier this afternoon.
posted by Julie Oakley at Sunday, August 13, 2006
6 Comments:
Poor thing. It sounds like she's struggling mightily to learn English. She'd be better off, probably, working for a firm in whatever her native language is. I sure like your Romans, though
The last sentence makes absolutely no sense. Lynne Truss would have something to say about her punctuation. There's a business opportunity her for Paradigm Training!
Is she "affluent" of "effluent" in photoshop?
I like this one a lot.
I wish you could post larger versions to see the details.
Best wishes,
-Christopher
www.christopherdesantis.com
Karen, sadly the cv indicated she was a native of the UK. The Roman soldiers are a bunch of enthusiasts who give a demonstration and talk most Sundays at the Verulamium museum wearing museum quality reproduction costumes.
Christopher I'll try to post a larger one on Flickr.
I doubt she'll ever be affluent with Photoshop unless she does a better job on her applications! Great Romans!
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