notes on the recruitment process

[freckles_and_doubt]

Wading through CVs for a job we've advertised. No selection process in which I have had a hand will ever employ anyone who:
1) promises to "develop the implementation model";
2) writes an application letter with the caps lock on;
3) does these completely obscene things to the innocent apostrophe.

A girl has her code.

Comments

[origamitiger.livejournal.com]

What about under use of the comma?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Given that my personal vice tends towards overuse of the comma, I don't really feel I can be judgemental here :>.

[veratiny.livejournal.com]

I deal with grant applications...we have three selection criteria....we expect people to address them (totally unreasonable I know) the number of people that don't despite my advice and then abuse me when they don't get funded is alarming. Why are rules seemingly inapplicable to the individual?

Also part of my job is to assist prior to applications being submitted. I am amused that part of my job is to correct people’s grammar and spelling—me with my very loose grasp on the mysteries of the English language! Still some of them are so poor that even I manage to generate some inner punctuation rage!

[veratiny.livejournal.com]

My personal pet hate is (educated) people using "&" instead of "and"....that makes me want to kill things.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Actually, I quite enjoy the occasional use of "&", it's a very eighteenth-century affectation :>. Sprinkle your writing with Ampersands & Random Noun Capitalisation and you'll sound like Samuel Pepys.

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

& there was I thinking that, writing as he did about the Great Fire of London, etc, Samuel Pepys was Seventeenth Century! ;)

Sounds as if the 'standard' of English as she should be Written in SA has gone the same Dismal way as in the Mother Country. Too much exposure to American TV series, txting & not enough reading of Proper Literature methinks.

Not to mention a General Abandonment of any teaching of Rules of Grammar (for all they are more Observed in their Breach than their Keeping) for the past thirty to forty years.