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A Letter To Employers
Sep. 28th, 2010 12:12 pmDear Prospective Employers,
I would like to call your attention to a few things, with regard to some of the habits you have when writing your ads that are rather, well, poor, and what they say to prospective employees.
1.) You do not list where you are located. How am I supposed to know if you are close enough to me to consider applying? You may be a fantastic fit, but if you're out on Cape Cod, and I'm in Pepperell, this is just not going to work. It is then a waste of my time to draft a cover letter and send my resume, and a waste of yours to have to read this and perhaps contact me.
2.) You give me no information regarding your company. If I do not know who you are or what you do, I cannot make an informed decision if our interests are in agreement. If you are, say, a biotech company, you do not want some New Age hippie working for you (not that I am, mind you, but the example stands). Likewise, you also effectively knee-cap me in any effort I may make to read up on your company beforehand. This does not bode well for your ability as an employer to give me the necessary information I need to do my job. Actually, it rather tells me that I'm going to waste a lot of time hunting down information that I should be given right up front, and probably getting spoken to on a regular basis for taking too long to do my work, despite your failure to provide me the necessary tools and information I require.
3.) You don't even make the effort to run a spell-check when you place your ad/Your punctuation is atrocious/you use capitals in middle of sentences/you otherwise horrible mangle the English language. Maybe you think this demonstrates how much you need the skills of a competent office manager and appeals to some maternal "Oh, they need me!" instinct? Honestly, what it says is that I'm going to spend a lot of time correcting your mistakes because you can't be bothered to take two seconds to look over your work. You are going to expect me to do everything for you, and probably bitch at me because something's taking too long, when I'm running around cleaning up after your lazy, self-important ass. You don't give a crap about me, your professional appearance, or the integrity of your business, and are probably going to spend a lot of time making my life miserable and not even going to bother to pay me enough to put up with it.
The list goes on, but these are the key points I see regularly. Please, people. I know it's an "Employers Market", but at least make an effort to pretend that you have some semblance of sense?
Sincerely yours,
~SP
I would like to call your attention to a few things, with regard to some of the habits you have when writing your ads that are rather, well, poor, and what they say to prospective employees.
1.) You do not list where you are located. How am I supposed to know if you are close enough to me to consider applying? You may be a fantastic fit, but if you're out on Cape Cod, and I'm in Pepperell, this is just not going to work. It is then a waste of my time to draft a cover letter and send my resume, and a waste of yours to have to read this and perhaps contact me.
2.) You give me no information regarding your company. If I do not know who you are or what you do, I cannot make an informed decision if our interests are in agreement. If you are, say, a biotech company, you do not want some New Age hippie working for you (not that I am, mind you, but the example stands). Likewise, you also effectively knee-cap me in any effort I may make to read up on your company beforehand. This does not bode well for your ability as an employer to give me the necessary information I need to do my job. Actually, it rather tells me that I'm going to waste a lot of time hunting down information that I should be given right up front, and probably getting spoken to on a regular basis for taking too long to do my work, despite your failure to provide me the necessary tools and information I require.
3.) You don't even make the effort to run a spell-check when you place your ad/Your punctuation is atrocious/you use capitals in middle of sentences/you otherwise horrible mangle the English language. Maybe you think this demonstrates how much you need the skills of a competent office manager and appeals to some maternal "Oh, they need me!" instinct? Honestly, what it says is that I'm going to spend a lot of time correcting your mistakes because you can't be bothered to take two seconds to look over your work. You are going to expect me to do everything for you, and probably bitch at me because something's taking too long, when I'm running around cleaning up after your lazy, self-important ass. You don't give a crap about me, your professional appearance, or the integrity of your business, and are probably going to spend a lot of time making my life miserable and not even going to bother to pay me enough to put up with it.
The list goes on, but these are the key points I see regularly. Please, people. I know it's an "Employers Market", but at least make an effort to pretend that you have some semblance of sense?
Sincerely yours,
~SP
