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15 Dec 2003, 16:27
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Job Application Question
If the closing date for a job app is (for example) 15-DEC-2003 and you can submit applications by e-mail does this mean that you can submit an app at any time before midnight on that day (as apposed to before 5pm or whenever)?
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15 Dec 2003, 16:28
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Re: Job Application Question
Wouldn't be a good idea
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15 Dec 2003, 16:32
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Re: Job Application Question
Why the phone call?
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15 Dec 2003, 16:34
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Re: Job Application Question
It just depends on the receiver. I don't believe every compagny handles such things the same way.
Quite a stupid question this is isn't it.
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15 Dec 2003, 16:34
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Re: Job Application Question
Er
Most applications handed in 24 hours beforehand wouldn't be seen favourably :/
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15 Dec 2003, 16:35
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Re: Job Application Question
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Originally Posted by lokken
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Most applications handed in 24 hours beforehand wouldn't be seen favourably :/
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Why?
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15 Dec 2003, 16:40
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Re: Job Application Question
It doesn't really matter that much for most jobs. At my work we accept things up until a couple of days later. Some places will throw in the bin after close of business. You could phone and ask, obviously.
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15 Dec 2003, 16:40
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Re: Job Application Question
As companies want to know that you are a well organised, well prepared guy.
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15 Dec 2003, 16:45
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Re: Job Application Question
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Originally Posted by lokken
As companies want to know that you are a well organised, well prepared guy.
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Who might have only just seen the job app?
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15 Dec 2003, 16:46
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Re: Job Application Question
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Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
To check they have acknowledges it, otherwise you could be rushing to your doormat every morning and they had just sent it to trashcan.
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I was gonna put a "please awknowledge receipt" message on my e-mail.
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15 Dec 2003, 16:55
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Re: Job Application Question
You'll never get a job
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15 Dec 2003, 17:01
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Re: Job Application Question
Thanks for the support Grimble.
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15 Dec 2003, 17:06
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Re: Job Application Question
and if you get a job you are going to be sooooooooooooooooooo ****ed ;-)
/me hops on the bandwagon! :P
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15 Dec 2003, 17:30
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Re: Job Application Question
Kindergarden uncle?
"come here sonny, sit on daddys lag. Dont worry,its made of wood, thats why its so hard...."
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15 Dec 2003, 17:49
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Re: Job Application Question
i would say get it in before 5
if you cant then you should phone the HR department and explain that you have just seen the advertisment and you think you would be perfect for the role
ask if it would be alright to get your application to them this evening for them to add to the list first thing tomorrow morning
apologise a lot and be polite
madi
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15 Dec 2003, 17:52
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Beyond The Sun
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Re: Job Application Question
dont be too polite though, be serious about what you say...try to sell yourself (and your soul) 
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15 Dec 2003, 18:00
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Re: Job Application Question
HMMMM, ****.
Here's hoping they're open till 6 :pissedoffatmyself:
I think it's too late to call now :(
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15 Dec 2003, 19:55
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Re: Job Application Question
Well thats the app off now.
I've managed to convince myself that the deadline thing means they collect all the apps up till that day.
Tomorrow is when they start looking at them.
As such when they receive it today doesn't matter.
I'm telling myself this so i don't get too annoyed at myself.
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15 Dec 2003, 20:02
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Re: Job Application Question
Send them some anthrax.
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15 Dec 2003, 22:43
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Re: Job Application Question
Having dealt with jobs apps at work. No one actually looks at the things until at least a week after the closing date anyway. So dont worry about it.
GOOD LUCK!!!
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15 Dec 2003, 22:46
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Re: Job Application Question
From what I can see, it took you as long to decide whether or not to complete the application as it did to actually fill it in.
It would appear your most suitable job is village spaz. Good luck getting it.
Hee hee.
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15 Dec 2003, 22:49
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Re: Job Application Question
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Originally Posted by lokken
As companies want to know that you are a well organised, well prepared guy.
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Not always true. What if his job is a pressure job where he needs to make decisions on the spur of the moment. Then a well written app before hand may look favorable. Also, companies are not going to give a crap anyway cause they have no idea when you saw the job posting.
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15 Dec 2003, 23:41
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Clerk
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Re: Job Application Question
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Originally Posted by Dace
I've managed to convince myself that the deadline thing means they collect all the apps up till that day.
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If it matters, the current job I have now, I handed the application form in at 6pm on the deadline day after having the application form for 2 months.
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16 Dec 2003, 01:18
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Re: Job Application Question
Well after getting the ball rolling with the first application i went on to fill out and send in another 4*.
I am feeling very pleased with myself.
Especially considering that that's the most job seeking i've done for months AND I DID IT ALL IN ONE DAY \o/
*not identical job applications for the same job but different applications for different jobs
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16 Dec 2003, 01:19
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Re: Job Application Question
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If it matters, the current job I have now, I handed the application form in at 6pm on the deadline day after having the application form for 2 months.
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I hope that Glasgow Council work like that too :)
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16 Dec 2003, 01:23
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Re: Job Application Question
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I hope that Glasgow Council work like that too |
I suspect they're far less picky.
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16 Dec 2003, 01:24
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Glasgow Council
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They're probably still allowing job applications from twenty five years ago, nevermind a few months. I doubt you'll have much trouble.
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16 Dec 2003, 01:33
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I suspect they're far less picky.
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They're probably still allowing job applications from twenty five years ago, nevermind a few months. I doubt you'll have much trouble.
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I applied for a job with the council a few months ago and they told me "nothankyoupleasedrivethrough".
As such i don't think it's quite a sure thing.
Saying that tho my application content has improved dramatically since then*.
*i've started exagerating
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16 Dec 2003, 01:37
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Re: Job Application Question
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I applied for a job with the council a few months ago and they told me "nothankyoupleasedrivethrough".
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I think this says more about you than either of our statements.
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I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. - Benjamin Franklin
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16 Dec 2003, 02:07
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i learned that on a course
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the 'how not to be a worthless bum and get a job' course?
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16 Dec 2003, 02:13
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Originally Posted by Insane. Badger
the 'how not to be a worthless bum and get a job' course?
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I think Idi enroled, but he never turned up for any of the lectures.
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16 Dec 2003, 16:51
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Re: Job Application Question
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if you do miss the deadline, contact them and inform them that you only just heard about the position and if they could send you an application form to fill in, theyll usually say yes and then you wont be in the shit
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Tis OK.
They had an online application form which i filled in.
\o/
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