Posted by CJ Llewellyn on 06/06/05 23:07

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:52:36 +0000, Jacob Atzen wrote:

> 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.

The OP could have posted in gramatically correct English.

The OP could have refrained from spamming his services.

The OP could have provided links to projects/source code that he has
worked on.

Are there any other bleeding obvious observations you'd like stated?

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