A letter I just received in my email today:
Thank you for your interest in joining E*******************.We have carefully reviewed your application for the ************** Specialist position as it relates to the Training Department’s present requirements. Although your overall background is good, we regret to inform you that we are unable to further process your application.
There were other candidates whose qualifications were closer to the Department’s requirements at this time.Rest assured that the results of all evaluations would be held with strict confidentiality and that we’ll be keeping your file on active status for future vacancies.
We wish you the best of luck in your current endeavors and express our sincere appreciation for your interest in applying.
This would have been my reply had I no sense of propriety or manners (yes, I am a bit pissed…bear with me…):
Dear *************,
Thank you so much for your email. I appreciate you taking the time to email me a well-written rejection letter.
But in future, please note the following:
1. Please do not make applicants who come from other provinces travel seven hours to Manila just to take an idiotic test on abstract reasoning, verbal reasoning, mathematical reasoning and the like then send them back again to wherever they came from to wait for your next call.
2. Please do not wait a week for said results to come through, have another interview, then ask the applicant to come straight to Manila for a teaching demo and a panel interview.
3. Should you interview your applicant at 11am, please do so. Making them wait for 30 minutes to an hour so you can go out and have some Starbucks frappes is just rude, rude, rude. Especially since the applicant saw you come in and out of the building oh so leisurely, with nary a thought about the applicant who just came from a nine-hour trip (the travel route had been changed because of the typhoon).
4. The applicant finds your condescension and your apparent lack of preparedness appalling. In future, stupid jokes and inane comments should be kept at a minimum, as are loud chatter during a teaching demo.
5. Your day will come. Burn in hell.
I feel better now.
Jobhunting, Pinoy style 5: The rejection letter…
October 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A letter I just received in my email today:
Thank you for your interest in joining E*******************.We have carefully reviewed your application for the ************** Specialist position as it relates to the Training Department’s present requirements. Although your overall background is good, we regret to inform you that we are unable to further process your application.
There were other candidates whose qualifications were closer to the Department’s requirements at this time.Rest assured that the results of all evaluations would be held with strict confidentiality and that we’ll be keeping your file on active status for future vacancies.
We wish you the best of luck in your current endeavors and express our sincere appreciation for your interest in applying.
This would have been my reply had I no sense of propriety or manners (yes, I am a bit pissed…bear with me…):
Dear *************,
Thank you so much for your email. I appreciate you taking the time to email me a well-written rejection letter.
But in future, please note the following:
1. Please do not make applicants who come from other provinces travel seven hours to Manila just to take an idiotic test on abstract reasoning, verbal reasoning, mathematical reasoning and the like then send them back again to wherever they came from to wait for your next call.
2. Please do not wait a week for said results to come through, have another interview, then ask the applicant to come straight to Manila for a teaching demo and a panel interview.
3. Should you interview your applicant at 11am, please do so. Making them wait for 30 minutes to an hour so you can go out and have some Starbucks frappes is just rude, rude, rude. Especially since the applicant saw you come in and out of the building oh so leisurely, with nary a thought about the applicant who just came from a nine-hour trip (the travel route had been changed because of the typhoon).
4. The applicant finds your condescension and your apparent lack of preparedness appalling. In future, stupid jokes and inane comments should be kept at a minimum, as are loud chatter during a teaching demo.
5. Your day will come. Burn in hell.
I feel better now.
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