Impressive
Posted: Fri 6 July, 2007 Filed under: General 2 Comments »You know, there’s something that always impresses me.
And that’s when I get an email from an IT agency, and they can’t even use linebreaks.
Something like this, in fact.
Good Morning!!I hope this email finds you well. Please find below details of a new role in which I was hoping that you may have an interest:My Client requires a Web Developer with the following skill set:[blah blah blah].The work required will normally be client side and although this role is a development role, the ideal candidate would also have excellent visual skills and an ability to pay close attention to detail – basically a good eye for design!!!N.B., You will be required to provide some sample URL’SStart: ASAPDuration 6 Weeks – 3 Months
Impressive, isn’t it?
Ah, the wonders of tag stripping…
I think it’s something common to recruitment people. I knew an employment agency manager who seemed to have no idea what these things called “paragraphs” or “the return key” were for – and it definitely wasn’t caused by tag-stripping in his case. Any memos from him came in the form of a single block of text, no punctuation, no capital letters, just a single stream. He presumably never did any sort of rereading what he’d typed before sending it, because rereading it would have been very very difficult.