Posted by Jacob Atzen on 06/06/05 12:52

On 2005-06-06, BearItAll <spam@rassler.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:35:57 -0700, mattvenables wrote:
>
>> If anyone needs a programmer to work on a project, you can e-mail me at
>> mattvenables (-AT-) gmail.com. I am extremely skilled in PHP and many
>> other web languages. Let me know!
>
> I have interviewed a lot of people over the years and because of the
> mountains of CVs and letters you receive, you tend to scan rather than
> read, the first scan to get rid of unlikely candidates you just pick out
> the 'style' rather than the content of them. I'm afraid that before I
> re-read your post to see what you were actually saying, I had already
> mentally thrown it into the bin.
>
> What ever your skills in programming you aren't going to get very far
> until you can write better introductory letters.

Your criticism is only marginally helpful to the OP. You say the style
is bad but not what the problem with the style is nor how it could be
improved. Please, enlighten us.

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Cheers,
- Jacob Atzen

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