Cover Letter Fail

[rymanrph]

While reviewing resumes for a customer service representative position, I came across a cover letter where the individual touts her equine experience. Since this position has absolutely nothing to do with horses, I began to wonder if there was an alternate meaning for the word that I just wasn't familiar with. I asked several others and even consulted with a foreign speaker to see if it was a translation error. Nothing made much sense until I found this:

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/samples-of-a-good-cover-letter.html

This person basically copied the whole letter, but it still didn't make any sense. What do horses have to do with baking? So, after a little more research, I found this:

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/coverlettersamples/a/targeted2.htm

So the moral of the story: if you're going to plagiarize a cover letter, make sure someone else hadn't already done it badly before you and don't leave anything in your letter that you don't understand.

 

[YY1]

Beautiful.

I was just on two interview committees for my project team (whew).

It always amazes me what some people let pass as "professional", when it comes the presentation on a resume or an interview.

A few years ago we had one applicant that spent 35 minutes of a 40 minute interview explaining to us why he wasn't named a vice president at his last job. Really?? maybe that's why!

 

[65LoveAffair]

While reviewing resumes for a customer service representative position, I came across a cover letter where the individual touts her equine experience. Since this position has absolutely nothing to do with horses, I began to wonder if there was an alternate meaning for the word that I just wasn't familiar with. I asked several others and even consulted with a foreign speaker to see if it was a translation error. Nothing made much sense until I found this:

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/samples-of-a-good-cover-letter.html

This person basically copied the whole letter, but it still didn't make any sense. What do horses have to do with baking? So, after a little more research, I found this:

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/coverlettersamples/a/targeted2.htm

So the moral of the story: if you're going to plagiarize a cover letter, make sure someone else hadn't already done it badly before you and don't leave anything in your letter that you don't understand.

So, uh.... You still hiring???

 

[RustyRatRod]

Kitty has been at Wal Mart just a tick over three months now. She's been promoted twice. From cashier to office assistant and now to Training Coordinator. She says part of her job is to ask the new employee a series of very simple open ended questions, one of which is "Why did you apply for this position?" She says on several occasions now she's gotten a blank stare followed by "Wut dat means?" I kid you not.