Is it just me, or is this a fucking snotty email?
I dropped off my cv and covering letter to a place near my college two weeks ago and this is what he said.

thank you for your application which I believe we received by post. I
prefer to manage recruits selection by email, so I would be grateful if
we could communicate by e-mail from now on.
I have received a covering letter and CV from you. Many of the things
which you mention in your covering letter do not appear on your CV.
Could you please fill in missing information from your CV.
What is your current job, responsibilities salary and benefits.
Please fill in dates for which month and year you started and finished
each position (whether that position was training or experience or
work) on your CV. In addition, please fill in what you were doing in
between positions.
For education positions, please record which hours and days you were
at college during that period. For employment positions please record
which hours and days you worked, whether the position was full or part
time, and whether this was a temporary permanent or work
experience/voluntary position.
Please fill in grades for each of your GCSEs and other qualifications.
Could you please also provide a few sentences as to your aspirations
for your career in the next one or two years.
Thank you very much
Yours sincerely
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 15:52, 22 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It's a pretty snotty email,
but at least it's a personal response which tells you they read both your cv and covering letter.

Much better than the standard "we have recieved your application we will look at it in due course" kind of thing.

Don't be put off by that email.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 15:58, Reply)

Sounds like
someone has just been promoted and is being a snobby fucktard. CVs and cover letters shouldn't be a million pages long which is what yours will end up as if you put all they want in it!

Is the job worth that much faffery?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 15:58, Reply)

Clearly they haven't read it properly because all of the information they require is printed on the back of the cv.
My brother printed it for me and it's a two sided cv to save paper.

Not sure it's worth the faff as my cv speaks for itself. If they want to be cunts then so be it.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:00, Reply)

So, wait
-You sent them your CV, doing them the courtesy of dropping it in yourself, rather than not bothering to leave your house and email
-You provide all the relevant information in a format that saves paper, and insures all information is kept together (e.g. losing one half or something)
-They send you an email that is, I think, worded as if speaking to someone of lower-than-average intelligence (though I agree with someone up there ^ , at least it's personalised)
-And they can't be arsed to turn it over and look at it properly?



How very lovely of them.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:06, Reply)

Yup. Having said that
this is a job that has been advertised on the job centre website, so no wonder it's worded for morons.

This is a guy who's been to university doing a medical degree for five years though, so you can't expect him to be able to read properly I guess.

Just replied in an equally snotty condescending fashion, so I doubt I'll hear from them again.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:09, Reply)

Just got a reply
Oh I didn't see the reverse side of your cv. How careless of me.

MONG
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:12, Reply)

at least they can admit their mistake,
better than a lot of employers.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:14, Reply)

Doh!
But in all fairness, it is unusual for a CV to be double sided.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:17, Reply)

Well sure
but if you noticed that the person made reference to previous jobs in the field in their covering letter and then no mention of them on the front page of their cv, would you not consider turning the page over to have a peek?
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:19, Reply)

To be fair
if he's expecting Job Centre Tards to apply, then he's done a very nice job of telling you how to properly write a CV. His expectations were low, so he made an ASS out of U and MED.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 17:56, Reply)

The best way to deal with those sort of problems isn't to get angry, I guess
or at least SHOW that you're angry. My dad is well-practiced in complaining (well, you know, the right sort- when things genuninely aren't working, not just OMGTHISISNOTRIGHT, and I'd say you could legitimately complain to that person!)

That old cliché, "don't get mad, get even".

good luck with the job hunt!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:13, Reply)

I'm feeling charitable.
It sounds to me as though they're trying to write official-sounding correspondence but lack the necessary skills to do so. Charity ends.

It also sounds as though they consider themselves more intelligent than any of their applicants and should be using an application form rather than requesting CVs. In addition, they should be educated as to the purpose of covering letters. And then killed. With a cactus.

I'm also of the opinion that your current salary is none of their accursed business, but that's not really relevant.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:13, Reply)

Ooh death by cactus rectal injection
I LIKE that.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:19, Reply)

Yeesh
Sounds like a secretary who's out of control, or some kind of total fucking pedant who's obsessed with process over content. If these people employ a total fucktard like that, do you really want to work for them? (unless of course it's ridiculously well paying).
And besides, to their snarkiest charge that what you put in the letter isn't in the CV, etc. Why the fuck would you put the same stuff in the letter as in the CV? It would defeat the point of sending both. I quite agree with the poster who mentioned it sounds like they need to be taking applications via some web form, rather than standard CVs.
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:23, Reply)

The guy who wrote it is a highly qualified veterinarian
and I'm guessing it's his own practice. I summarised my cv in the cover letter and then expanded upon it in bullet format in the cv. That's what cover letters are for no?
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:38, Reply)

a cover letter is to explain why you want and deserve the job
and to expand upon relevant parts of your CV so as not to make the CV 4 million pages long.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:44, Reply)

Good God do they want you to write War and Peace?
I reckon you should do it, just to spite them.
(Psyche finishes work at the end of June! Yay!!!, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 16:51, Reply)

Well I do have nothing better to do withmy time
but the sun's shining and my laptop has a shiny screen which reflects badly outside, so war and peace might be a bit of an effort right now.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 17:09, Reply)

Utter utter cock
He just called me, grilled me about my last job and then offered me a locum position which I said I wasn't too sure about. I suggested an interview and a trial shift so I can see what they're like as much as they see what I'm like. So he then says well if you're not interested then I think we should terminate this call. Click.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 17:45, Reply)

There's only one response to that
publish his e-mail address on here and watch as his mailbox gets spammed to hell.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 17:50, Reply)

Very tempting
only I know some cunt would put my name in it and he'd find a way to make my life miserable. He knew everyone I worked with and couldn't believe my reasons for leaving...erm...I was put on reception 3 days a week, one day nursing and one day of college. That's not what my contract said I'd be doing, so therefore I left.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:03, Reply)

well...
good to know he's a cunt before you got the job, then
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:21, Reply)