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Now how f*ing hard was that?

Thank you for submitting an application for employment with [organization]. Your application will be reviewed and if your skills and qualifications are a match for the position we will be in contact with you. Good Luck in your search.

Again, thank you for your interest in [organization].

Please do not respond to this email, this is an automatic response.

I mean, really?

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  1. sttropezbutlers says

    20 December 2005 at 10:02

    Currently looking for a job myself, and not having worked in this country in 10 years, all has changed. Applying online, automated responses, it is a new world!

    STB

  2. Mike Rogers says

    20 December 2005 at 10:16

    The ommitted organization, no doubt, is mailing out fundraising appeals promising a year of outreach to our members, creating one big happy family of [organization]’s supporters.

  3. jim says

    20 December 2005 at 13:26

    Having seen numerous ones like this during the previous few years (thanks, W!), I’m skeptical that this venue will give your credentials their due attention. The online submissions — and how I hate that word — have created an interesting problem in making it too easy to deluge hiring managers. You may have better luck using old school tactics like a paper resume directed to the Right Person. 🙂

    A certain large airplane manufacturer still sends me letters indicating positions I applied to over two years ago have recently been filled. Uh, thanks, large airplane manufacturer!

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