Jobcentre ad banned as it could be "offensive" to unreliable people.

[Saracen]

Sounds a bit like my plans for the Big Brother house...

You got me to laugh with that one. I pulled my back yesterday and everything hurts at the moment, so managing to get me to laugh deserve a thanks.

Of course, laughing hurts like hell, so I also have to ban you.






/kidding, of course.

[scaryjim]

It is a shame that they can't do a reverse filtering system, e.g.

"We want all types of people, but the lazy halfwits who couldn't even spell 'diligent' go through the door to the left, marked 'Exit', and the others through the door into the personnel department."

That's what most people do when they're short listing anyway. You may be surprised at the number of people who apply for jobs requiring degree, who still can't read a job advert. My favourites are when the advert says "You must complete the application form", and you still get two or three people who just send in a CV and a covering letter that starts "I would like to apply..." or "Please can I apply..."...

[TooNice]

Maybe they haven't actually seen the job advert? One of my friend said that it's common practice for would-be English language teachers to go to a certain place (don't recall the details) and essentially wave your CV around. She landed her dream job, so it must've worked (she did have the brain, pleasant personality and excellent work ethics) ^^;

[jim]

That's what most people do when they're short listing anyway. You may be surprised at the number of people who apply for jobs requiring degree, who still can't read a job advert. My favourites are when the advert says "You must complete the application form", and you still get two or three people who just send in a CV and a covering letter that starts "I would like to apply..." or "Please can I apply..."...

I used to love reading CVs that were handed in to me when I worked in a shop... some personal favourites were the guy who boasted about his ongoing A-level studies, whilst applying for a full-time position, the girl who wrote down which subjects she'd taken for GCSE a couple of years back, but not which ones she passed, and another girl whose extensive list of work experience pushed her CV onto three pages - listing such positions as "Doing the ironing (at home)" and "Cleaning out my friend's rabbit hutch". That was made all the more spectacular by her insistence underneath each one that it showed she was either hard-working or reliable, usually alternating as the positions were listed.

[scaryjim]

Maybe they haven't actually seen the job advert? ...

Nono, they all mentioned the specific position by name / reference. We're a very small research unit and rarely have vacancies (this is the second in > 18 months since I started here); we're not a target for the CV distributing types. These are people who had hunted for a type of job, found our advert, and then not bothered reading the details. Makes you wonder which other details of the job they didn't bother reading about, really...