Doncaster
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- Joined
- Aug 20, 2012
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- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Russian Federation
- Current Location
- Canada
Hello everybody,
I have a very sensitive question for you. This IS about English but it concerns a discourse of a business letter rather than a meaning of a specific word or expression.
The situation is as follows: I work at a small company and in our office there are three specialists of some Occupation A including myself. We know for sure that our boss is not going to hire a fourth specialist of Occupation A since he (the fourth) will simply not have what to do. The three of us are more than enough to cover all the bases.
Time after time we get by fax a resume of some job seeker who is just looking for a job in our industry and sends out his resume to everybody in the field he can find in the Yellow Pages. I am quite familiar with format of such letters - they look very generic and never mention or refer to any specific job ad that job seeker was responding to. I also know that whenever someone applies for a job s/he it is considered to be a good tone to mention where you found that job add...
However yesterday we received a fax that kind of made all three of us wary. Please read below.
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Fax Cover Sheet
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
TO: Personnel Officer / Office Manager
FROM: NAME of the applicant
RE: (OUR OCCUPATION) position
No. Pages: 3
Please find attached my resume in application for a position with your firm.
I am very interested in such a post and would be most pleased to hear from you at your earliest convenience so that an interview might be arranged.
Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.
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In this fax an applicant applies for a job at our company but what makes it different from all other generic faxes is that it mentions words like 'PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL' (we were not supposed to see it, it was supposed to come to some email but for some reason was sent by fax and therefore that 'private and confidential', 'application for a position with your firm' ('POSITION' means that there is a certain open position available?), 'Interested in such a post' (there is a POSTED somewhere job ad?). Moreover the applicant already talks about arranging job interview.
We have a reason to be concerned: we know that our employer might replace us with some other new employees since their salaries will be immediately lower... BTW, this is how we came to the company with various degrees 6 years ago - we replaced people who by that moment were let go/dismissed and worked at the company for around 10 years each.
So my questions is:
Because I do not really understand nuances of English: Does this job application sound to you like it is just generic pro-active job search applying to all the companies in our industry or it all sounds like there is a job ad somewhere posted (which means we are likely to be replaced in some future?)
Would it be OK to contact the applicant (kind of playing polite) and ask to what job ad she is responding, i.e. where it was posted (for future reference)?
Thank you in advance for your response,
I have a very sensitive question for you. This IS about English but it concerns a discourse of a business letter rather than a meaning of a specific word or expression.
The situation is as follows: I work at a small company and in our office there are three specialists of some Occupation A including myself. We know for sure that our boss is not going to hire a fourth specialist of Occupation A since he (the fourth) will simply not have what to do. The three of us are more than enough to cover all the bases.
Time after time we get by fax a resume of some job seeker who is just looking for a job in our industry and sends out his resume to everybody in the field he can find in the Yellow Pages. I am quite familiar with format of such letters - they look very generic and never mention or refer to any specific job ad that job seeker was responding to. I also know that whenever someone applies for a job s/he it is considered to be a good tone to mention where you found that job add...
However yesterday we received a fax that kind of made all three of us wary. Please read below.
- - -
Fax Cover Sheet
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
TO: Personnel Officer / Office Manager
FROM: NAME of the applicant
RE: (OUR OCCUPATION) position
No. Pages: 3
Please find attached my resume in application for a position with your firm.
I am very interested in such a post and would be most pleased to hear from you at your earliest convenience so that an interview might be arranged.
Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.
- - -
In this fax an applicant applies for a job at our company but what makes it different from all other generic faxes is that it mentions words like 'PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL' (we were not supposed to see it, it was supposed to come to some email but for some reason was sent by fax and therefore that 'private and confidential', 'application for a position with your firm' ('POSITION' means that there is a certain open position available?), 'Interested in such a post' (there is a POSTED somewhere job ad?). Moreover the applicant already talks about arranging job interview.
We have a reason to be concerned: we know that our employer might replace us with some other new employees since their salaries will be immediately lower... BTW, this is how we came to the company with various degrees 6 years ago - we replaced people who by that moment were let go/dismissed and worked at the company for around 10 years each.
So my questions is:
Because I do not really understand nuances of English: Does this job application sound to you like it is just generic pro-active job search applying to all the companies in our industry or it all sounds like there is a job ad somewhere posted (which means we are likely to be replaced in some future?)
Would it be OK to contact the applicant (kind of playing polite) and ask to what job ad she is responding, i.e. where it was posted (for future reference)?
Thank you in advance for your response,