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# hee hee
how it would look if someone like me was in charge of it.

I'm a prat and I'm gonna tell you guys all about it.

Yesterday, being friday, the local papers with job adverts came out. There's two: the Advertiser and the Journal. There was one job I could do in each.

I cheerfully wrote out a covering letter to each of them, one by email and one in an envelope.

This morning, checking my copies, I realised I have sent a letter to the people who had the advert in the Advertiser, referring to their "job advertisment in the Journal".

Oops.

Sorry for TJ.
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 10:50, archived)
# unless the job was as a proofreader
You might just get away with it..
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 10:52, archived)
# part time admin assistant
:)
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 10:56, archived)
# at the interview
wear a badge that reads "I [heart] Part time Administration"

Works every time :)
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 10:57, archived)
# tempting
should I wear the bat deely-boppers too?
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 10:59, archived)
# Keep them in a bag
And if they look like the interview's not going well, whip 'em out.
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 11:02, archived)
# yes
but what about the deely-boppers?
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 11:03, archived)
# Badum tsh
thankyou thankyou, we'll be here all week, try the veal!
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 11:07, archived)
# hmmmm
opps.......
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 10:52, archived)
# hee hee
:)
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 10:56, archived)
# Don't worry about it
they probably won't read your letter anyway - they usually skip through to the CV because everyone says the same thing in covering letters.
Either that or you'll really confuse them.
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 10:53, archived)
# well, it's the colourful CV they've got
I have two, boring and pretty. I know this particular company and figured the pretty one would go down better (and be less likely to get lost in their heaps of unidentified paperwork).

So hopefully the wonderful formatting job will attract attention from the stupid fuck-up.
(, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 10:58, archived)