AIBU to think that an application for a job should NOT look like this?

[travelswithtea]

This small bit cut & pasted directly from part of a longer application letter. For an ACADEMIC position!

l believe now u can understand my intation & my ambition . if u feel
me as the right academacian u can recommend me selection . waht ever
the dession u will take i abide to it .

What is wrong with people? At least get someone else to look at/edit it before sending if you're unsure of whether using 'u' or 'you' is standard practice these days.

ROFL... This has made my day, thanks for sharing

Oh, come on ... this is so far from normal there's no point doing anything except pitying them and moving on. I can't believe the person who wrote that is properly published unless something very odd has happened.

I don't think it sounds remotely like a second-language issue, either. It's too close to colloquial.

What's the betting that's a mandatory JobSeekers application? You know they're not suitable, they know they're not suitable, JobCentre clerk says apply or else.

That is so mismatched that I wonder if it was not ever intended as a serious application but part of a box-ticking job-seeking exercise in which you have to apply for a certain number of positions per week.

At least they're going to abide to your decision, which is pretty big of them.

Yes ApocalypseThen, I like the impression that gives that if they chose to not abide to by OP's decision, they could just rock up and start working in the job.

apocalypse
treacle Yes. I had similar thoughts about how much effort some people put into stuff. I don't want to step over privacy boundaries radical, miss and others but yes it is a university and yes the person holds a high level position in their current (foreign) university. I think the journal publications have obviously been edited by co-authors or by the journals themselves, etc. I can't vouch for the book titles; they look pretty 'self'-published IMO, and not in a good way either. fyi after some discussion I think the application will make a U-turn with a nice 'we wish you success in your further endeavours' sort of clause.
I'm just so glad I got this off my chest!!!!!!!!

The thing is there is a huge difference between someone applying with English as a second language who is currently an and academic in another European university and someone applying from one of the newly created Ethiopian universities. It's not just about language it is about cultural norms and environment. I just thought it would be nice to email them, say, some links to useful websites about applying for EU/UK jobs. I interviewed someone once who was unemployable due to their interview skills and spent quite a while afterwards talking them through it, because I thought they had potential.

But obviously you know more about their background and are in a better position to tell if they're just a lazy twat.

hehe poddling

I've worked with many academics who have english as a second language and that is far far worse than anything I have seen.

Are you sure it is genuine? I would suspect it is a fraudulent application.

By any chance, is the CV you received over-qualified for the actual job?

Could this be some kind of scam? "Oh yes, I'll pretend to be Jean-Michel Depardieu, they'll leap at the chance to hire me, then I'll have them forward me an allowance for a visit/moving expenses" etc?

Just send it back with a Post It saying 'LOL'.

On the plus side, they can spell 'receive' and 'recommend'. 2/10 for effort?

bird ...and 'receive' is a difficult one! i before e, except after h? w? x? I forget.

i before e except when it isn't, is about the only really reliable rule .

I used to work for a recruitment agency and would regularly receive a CV from a man who always ended his badly written CV with "I have a cat". We thought that he must mean car but nope, he just wanted us to know he had a cat.

The cat would swing it for me.

Last time I was on a recruitment panel we had one applicant whose entire cover letter consisted of three lines on how s/he did not currently have a driving license but was going to get one. Job spec didn't even mention a driving license...

that's me not getting that job then.

only kidding.

Unless you're a Bond villain or Hermione Granger, I don't see how mentioning your cat is going to help with a job.

was he Blofeld?

I guess it might be fraudulent or a scam but it would be surprisingly sophisticated. And I use sophisticated in the loosest sense of the word. But the nature of the call for applications would make it surprising if it was.
Another gem:
"hence the international [removed for ID/privacy reasons]* socety conferred fellow & legion of honor awards from canbada i have been felicitated with many citizen awards with all the above merit i am aspirent to serve at your
university"
Yes folks. Canbada. Oh Canbada, oh Canbada**

*Its a specific field of study
**Unless we all missed something over here, and Canbada is not a North American country?

soloman Will indeed consider. Thanks.

*It's. Darn. Well that was embarrassing considering the thread. I blame autocorrect.

Isn't the Canbada the dance that Gomez and Morticia Addams do?

pterodactyl It did appear to be a Portuguese term, but since it said Canada elsewhere on the CV, we figured it was coincidence.

That's the Mamushka!