Free postcode lottery:home working job

[Janine8023]

Hi everyone, I saw this job by chance advertised on my Facebook page. I know nothing about the company, but I think it's worth a try for someone on here.

4-7 hours a week. Answering emails.
Good luck.

https://www.facebook.com/freepostcodelottery/posts/777889918943753

 

[alditoharrods]

Thanks for posting this, I've sent over my proposal.

 

[queen81]

Aye me too, even though I live nowhere near ahaha

 

[Chammy]

And me, not getting my hopes up though

 

[Late]

Have to agree with a comment on FB - if you can't work out you need to click on the link to apply, there isn't much hope for you, the fact they want good English & then people write comments using poor English, grammar & punctuation etc. It does, however, make it easy to whittle down applicants quickly when you have hundreds of people apply for jobs they have no hope of getting.

In the days of using pen & paper, I was about a year away from needing to apply for jobs, so asked my boss if I could be involved in the process when he advertised a job. We were away for the weekend & took a huge pile of applications with us to go through (working weekend before any comments are made, lol). He asked me to go through them & pick the ones I thought should be interviewed. I sat & very quickly started discarding loads & he asked me why as I hadn't really looked at them. I pointed out they'd used blue pen and not black as per the instructions. He was a bit surprised, but I pointed out to him he'd be away 3 weeks every summer & out of the office 3-4 days a week & this person would basically running the office & prioritising things for him whilst he was away etc. He'd also go to the office in the evenings & you'd come in to a huge pile of work to go through which would often take 2-3 days. Would he be happy leaving them to do that & leaving them instructions if they couldn't follow that basic instruction? He saw my point. I was also quite gobsmacked at the number of people who send in applications which had muddy paw prints, tea/coffee stains on the front page, loads of things scribbled out etc. Great impression. That was all before you looked at what qualifications / experience they had - there were a few excellent applications but so many people applied who had absolutely no relevant experience whatsoever & it wasn't an entry level position.

I suppose it's like the oDesk things a while back where it clearly stated the need for native English speakers & educated in the UK & there were so many applications from people who were foreign, educated in their native country & live there. Why do people waste their time applying for that sort of thing when they so clearly don't meet the specifications & no wiggle room of saying they're an ex-pat or something like that?

 

[queen81]

Have to agree with a comment on FB - if you can't work out you need to click on the link to apply, there isn't much hope for you, the fact they want good English & then people write comments using poor English, grammar & punctuation etc. It does, however, make it easy to whittle down applicants quickly when you have hundreds of people apply for jobs they have no hope of getting.

In the days of using pen & paper, I was about a year away from needing to apply for jobs, so asked my boss if I could be involved in the process when he advertised a job. We were away for the weekend & took a huge pile of applications with us to go through (working weekend before any comments are made, lol). He asked me to go through them & pick the ones I thought should be interviewed. I sat & very quickly started discarding loads & he asked me why as I hadn't really looked at them. I pointed out they'd used blue pen and not black as per the instructions. He was a bit surprised, but I pointed out to him he'd be away 3 weeks every summer & out of the office 3-4 days a week & this person would basically running the office & prioritising things for him whilst he was away etc. He'd also go to the office in the evenings & you'd come in to a huge pile of work to go through which would often take 2-3 days. Would he be happy leaving them to do that & leaving them instructions if they couldn't follow that basic instruction? He saw my point. I was also quite gobsmacked at the number of people who send in applications which had muddy paw prints, tea/coffee stains on the front page, loads of things scribbled out etc. Great impression. That was all before you looked at what qualifications / experience they had - there were a few excellent applications but so many people applied who had absolutely no relevant experience whatsoever & it wasn't an entry level position.

I suppose it's like the oDesk things a while back where it clearly stated the need for native English speakers & educated in the UK & there were so many applications from people who were foreign, educated in their native country & live there. Why do people waste their time applying for that sort of thing when they so clearly don't meet the specifications & no wiggle room of saying they're an ex-pat or something like that?

I'd totally agree with you on this and do the same. A simple instruction that cannot be followed should void your application

 

[Chammy]

Have to agree with a comment on FB - if you can't work out you need to click on the link to apply, there isn't much hope for you, the fact they want good English & then people write comments using poor English, grammar & punctuation etc. It does, however, make it easy to whittle down applicants quickly when you have hundreds of people apply for jobs they have no hope of getting.

In the days of using pen & paper, I was about a year away from needing to apply for jobs, so asked my boss if I could be involved in the process when he advertised a job. We were away for the weekend & took a huge pile of applications with us to go through (working weekend before any comments are made, lol). He asked me to go through them & pick the ones I thought should be interviewed. I sat & very quickly started discarding loads & he asked me why as I hadn't really looked at them. I pointed out they'd used blue pen and not black as per the instructions. He was a bit surprised, but I pointed out to him he'd be away 3 weeks every summer & out of the office 3-4 days a week & this person would basically running the office & prioritising things for him whilst he was away etc. He'd also go to the office in the evenings & you'd come in to a huge pile of work to go through which would often take 2-3 days. Would he be happy leaving them to do that & leaving them instructions if they couldn't follow that basic instruction? He saw my point. I was also quite gobsmacked at the number of people who send in applications which had muddy paw prints, tea/coffee stains on the front page, loads of things scribbled out etc. Great impression. That was all before you looked at what qualifications / experience they had - there were a few excellent applications but so many people applied who had absolutely no relevant experience whatsoever & it wasn't an entry level position.

I suppose it's like the oDesk things a while back where it clearly stated the need for native English speakers & educated in the UK & there were so many applications from people who were foreign, educated in their native country & live there. Why do people waste their time applying for that sort of thing when they so clearly don't meet the specifications & no wiggle room of saying they're an ex-pat or something like that?

I saw that comment and agreed.

My mum used to do a lot of recruiting and basically taught me the same, if they have any blemishes (including scribbling out) then it went straight in the bin. If they can't get an application form right then that's a pretty good indicator that they will be the same with the rest of their work

 

[doublemum]

Yes I agree, when I've recruited applications like that are the first to be ditched, often without a glance. I once got sent a covering letter someone had written on the back of their shopping list.

 

[alditoharrods]

Somewhat related, I read an article yesterday that suggested employers throw out CVs of people with a hotmail email address

 

[Scott@KarmaContent]

I used to be a recruitment consultant. The tales I could tell you about bad applications!

One thing that used to amaze me was the amount of people that apply for jobs using 'inappropriate' emails. In the past I've had ones like buzzinoffmetits@XXXXXXX. com, dirtysexkitten123@XXXXXXXX. com and weedtokerXXX@XXXXX. com.

Two of the more interesting ones were iwantohugareallivewildtiger@XXXXXXXX. com and perhaps my favourite soselfawarebutsofullofshit@XXXXXXXX. com.

 

[Jon]

lol, some VERY funny email addresses try to sign up to TMS at times.


As above, what you see on application forms can be shocking but also is a good indication of a) the quality of the person b) their seriousness when it comes to applying for the role

 

[nicki]

Somewhat related, I read an article yesterday that suggested employers throw out CVs of people with a hotmail email address

And this is why I have my own domain lol Plus my hotmail account I've had since 1998 so you can image the amount of SPAM I can get to it on occasions lol

 

[caledonia1972]

Have to agree with a comment on FB - if you can't work out you need to click on the link to apply, there isn't much hope for you, the fact they want good English & then people write comments using poor English, grammar & punctuation etc. It does, however, make it easy to whittle down applicants quickly when you have hundreds of people apply for jobs they have no hope of getting.

You see this all of the time on sites like people per hour - I recently replied to a post from a Scottish food company looking for social media management, blog posting, product description writing etc. One of the clarification questions on the bottom of the post was written by a foreign freelancer whose question was "Do you want writings in Scotch or English?" Seriously. Gave me a giggle though.

 

[Moonpoppy]

"buzzinoffmetits@,,,," hahahaha! That's a classic!!!

Yep, we had a pretty good system going when I worked in HR for Probation (many years ago) ... especially for the Probation Officers. Can't spell? Send in tattered application forms? Haven't bothered to fill in all the details? BIIIIIIIIN ;D that was quite a tricky one to wriggle out of 'tho when the Chief would come down and ask why such-and-such wasn't on the interview list *hehe* but I was happy to be a fully-paid up member of the Grammar Police!

So glad that the FreePostcodeLottery guy has asked for help - his business has grown so rapidly over the last year, he must be in total overwhelm! Good on him - and good luck everyone, who's applied via PPH :-*

 

[RedAlix]

Somewhat related, I read an article yesterday that suggested employers throw out CVs of people with a hotmail email address

Would a gmail email account be thrown out too?

 

[stellajose]

I used to be a recruitment consultant. The tales I could tell you about bad applications!

One thing that used to amaze me was the amount of people that apply for jobs using 'inappropriate' emails. In the past I've had ones like buzzinoffmetits@XXXXXXX. com, dirtysexkitten123@XXXXXXXX. com and weedtokerXXX@XXXXX. com.

Two of the more interesting ones were iwantohugareallivewildtiger@XXXXXXXX. com and perhaps my favourite soselfawarebutsofullofshit@XXXXXXXX. com.

OTOH, it can work. Two of my friends have the email adresses giveshead@[thefamousmail].com and beingblondeismyexcuse@[theonebeginningwithy].com and one is a social worker (high up tho) and one is a Psychology lecturer at uni. They both use those email addresses and (claim to) have used them in professional application. Ha.

 

[stellajose]

Somewhat related, I read an article yesterday that suggested employers throw out CVs of people with a hotmail email address

Would a gmail email account be thrown out too?

Good question. Where do we get us a professional-looking email addy?

 

[Jon]

Buy a domain...