Must remain professional (light-hearted)

[4teensandababy]

Oh wise mumsnetters. Please help me to remain calm, and not let my sarcastic self take over....

Background: I’m recruiting for a role within my company. It’s a Junior Admin Role. Basic stuff, filing, answering phones etc.

I posted a job advert on our local town page on Facebook (yes I know) - but it will get good visibility, and the role would be great for a local person.

Anyhow. Relatively simple post, and it included the following points:

Must have excellent verbal & written English
Good attention to detail
Monday to Friday 9 - 5pm
To apply, please email me at [email protected] WITH your CV AND a covering letter (this was a little test)

In the past 24 hours, I have received (and not limited to) the following:

Of 21 people who emailed me, only 2 included a covering letter.
One applicant messaged me on Facebook to ask me what the hours are.....
One applicant messaged me on Facebook to ask if the role can be done remotely.
One applicant messaged me on Facebook: “I wuld like to aply for this roll”
One applicant messaged me on Facebook: “Plz can u give me more info” (their profile picture was them smoking a joint)
One applicant emailed me (yay) with their CV, but stated not to bother inviting her for interview if the role paid less than £29k?!

There are plenty more examples!

I know I may have invited a little of this by using Facebook, but the recruitment company were being useless and doing their own thing!

So my AIBU. Would it be entirely unreasonable to respond to some of these with sarcastic responses, or should I remain professional at all times and bite my tongue?!

I was ready to click this link but all my kills so far have been amateur, I won’t waste the time of the recruiter.

Our local FB jobs board is like this too, I've stopped using it because the applicants we get through it are just awful in general and you end up with a constant flurry of notifications to deal with. Our applications are similar "CV and covering letter stating x, y and z to [email protected]" and that simple instruction probably filters out 80% of applicants. Covering letter in body of email is fine, but when the advert clearly states we're recruiting several positions so please advise which hours you would like to apply for (for example) and they don't even give you that info...

But more annoying is the FB comment replies
Person 1: "Interested"
Person 2: "can these hours be done at the weekend?" (the answer to this is very very fucking obvious from what the company does: NO!)
Person 3: "PM me"
Person 4: tags person 5
Person 1: total timewasters, not got back to me (in the 30 minutes that have passed since they last posted...)

There's also someone with a bugbear about the living wage who posts on every single lower paid job calling the employers a disgrace, someone else who inevitably doesn't understand apprenticeships and starts threatening to report people...it's crazy

Shotsfired that response isn't bad at all. It's only a bar manager job!

From the other side, I recently had an interview, took a day off work, spent a couple of hours preparing and when I turned up they didn’t know why I was there, the HR person hadn’t told the interviewers I’d accepted their interview request and although the interviewer was there she said she had time to interview me but couldn’t because their policy was to have 2 staff members in an interview. She sent me out the door and said we’ll arrange an interview for another day, I was fuming. I declined their offer to take another day off work.

@CheeseyToast Shotsfired that response isn't bad at all. It's only a bar manager job!

The point is, the ad clearly said call or pop in. She just replied and YOU call ME, even though if she had gone in (just round the corner remember), she'd probably have the job by now!

Instead, you can bet someone else who did pop in is happily pulling pints as we type!

I have seen a job advertised that would suit me but I will be on holiday on the date they have set aside for interviews. Would I be wasting their time if I applied?

I rent out a spare room to lodgers. It's a detailed advert with photos, floor plan, house rules etc.

I say please email with details of employment or study AND an acknowledgement you are ok with the house rules ( rules are not super weird but things like no bikes to be stored in flat, no smoking anywhere, limits on overnight guests to two nights a week).

I reckon less than 10pc follow those two requests. And it's a well priced room in zone 1 so I get 100s of applicants.

We advertised a role with intermediate skills in a particular piece of software as a must. Said there would be a test before the interview and interview was subject to doing OK on the test. The actual test was prob basic skills with a few intermediate questions.
We had about 20 applicants. 13 for the test. About half walked out and all th e rest bar one didn't make it to interview. They couldn't do the basic software they'd been told they were tested on.
The remaining one was hired and is fantastic but she was the last one in, I was about to despair!