Job search frontier
I have finally been responding to the people looking for jobs.
- I responded to the person who misspelled my name (wonderfully kind person that I am), inviting her for an interview and suggesting that she doublecheck spelling and choose just one title — she apologised, though she misspelled the word misspell in the apology.
- One person does textile arts in her spare time, which is very cool.
- Not everyone has clued into the “don’t go more informal” rule, and though I write all my emails to Ms. or Mr. whoever (except for one, because the name is one of those half of them are boys half of them are girls names, and I couldn’t find any clues), I’m still getting a few “Hello” emails in response to this.
February 28th, 2005 at 7:49 pm
Is spelling important to the job?
February 28th, 2005 at 9:08 pm
Sort of. However, we’ve come up with a whole test process, and we’re hoping that will be a better gauge.
March 1st, 2005 at 1:09 pm
Even if it’s not, it suggests either sloppiness or ignorance — neither of which would put a candidate in a good light. (And yes, I’m well aware perfectly bright and capable people misspell and commit typos — but why make a bad impression when it’s so easy to prevent?)
Good luck with it! :)
March 1st, 2005 at 11:05 pm
Yeah, well, I’m pretty much accepting people with the right qualifications and seeing how they do on testing.
March 2nd, 2005 at 2:38 pm
I always use the rule: no first names until the cheque, job, whatever is yours.
Fibre arts are very cool, indeed. With that chunk of knowledge in the back of my brain I’d be unfairly biased, I think.
March 4th, 2005 at 11:37 pm
Luckily, we needed to hire pretty much everyone who came in for an interview and had a brain. So I could pretend I wasn’t totally into the fibre arts person just cause of it.
I will be having fun posting about interviewing soon. After I sleep. Everyone told me how terrible I looked today. (No, just tired.)