Dear job applicant's mum
the job advert your daughter replied to specifically stated that the position offered with my company required a good basic knowledge of working with Photoshop and other Adobe apps on PC and/or Mac.

When you called some weeks later to complain about your daughter not having had the 'common courtesy' of a reply to her application, I apologised to you for the 'oversight'.

I now wish to withdraw that apology. I hadn't realised who we were talking about. Under 'relevant experience' on the application form your daughter wrote "piano tuning", so it went straight into the bin.

Yours etc.

MisterPunch
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:02, 4 replies)

Hahahahaahaha
That's totally going on my CV in future.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:07, closed)

hahahaha excellent!

( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:33, closed)

Is it common courtesy to reply to EVERY application?
I thought that was only necessary after an interview.

And if they get their mum to phone up they are clearly a loser anyway
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:49, closed)

I try to reply to every application
except the complete no-hopers.

I don't set much store by graphology, but the alarm bells for this one went off before I'd opened the envelope. No smiley faces or rainbows, but they wouldn't have look out of place. Green ink too, if I remember accurately.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:25, closed)