Comments on: How not to write a job advert http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/07/28/how-not-to-write-a-job-advert/ A blog about good business writing and bad. Especially the bad. Because there's so much more of the bad. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:05:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Why do we never see motorbikes advertised on TV? | BMX Motorbikes http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/07/28/how-not-to-write-a-job-advert/comment-page-1/#comment-1237 Why do we never see motorbikes advertised on TV? | BMX Motorbikes Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:02:55 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=345#comment-1237 [...] goodcopybadcopy » Blog Archive » How not to write a job advert [...] [...] goodcopybadcopy » Blog Archive » How not to write a job advert [...]

]]> By: Clare Lynch http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/07/28/how-not-to-write-a-job-advert/comment-page-1/#comment-1149 Clare Lynch Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:13:32 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=345#comment-1149 There was more expected of this transformational, evangelistic, executing leader?!? I'd have liked to have seen those other paragraphs. I might be tapping you for them if I ever run short of material (though that's unlikely). There was more expected of this transformational, evangelistic, executing leader?!? I’d have liked to have seen those other paragraphs. I might be tapping you for them if I ever run short of material (though that’s unlikely).

]]> By: anon (but clare knows who i am) http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/07/28/how-not-to-write-a-job-advert/comment-page-1/#comment-1145 anon (but clare knows who i am) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:08:23 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=345#comment-1145 there was actually another two paragraphs of this job non-description but i didn't want to hurt your brain too much, i fear a nuclear expletive explosion over SE1. there was actually another two paragraphs of this job non-description but i didn’t want to hurt your brain too much, i fear a nuclear expletive explosion over SE1.

]]> By: Clare Lynch http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/07/28/how-not-to-write-a-job-advert/comment-page-1/#comment-1144 Clare Lynch Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:08:38 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=345#comment-1144 Brad/smfifteen Thank you both for making me laugh out loud with your inspirationally / clearly articulated messaging. Clare Brad/smfifteen

Thank you both for making me laugh out loud with your inspirationally / clearly articulated messaging.

Clare

]]> By: smfifteen http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/07/28/how-not-to-write-a-job-advert/comment-page-1/#comment-1143 smfifteen Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:30:26 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=345#comment-1143 What's particularly hilarious (out of one long episode of gruesome hilarity) is that they clearly had so much jargon that they were trying to shoe-horn in to the advert that were unable to accommodate all of it into sentences, and so had to make do with forward slashes to separate pairs of words. I'm picturing the head of HR marching up to someone's desk and emptying out an envelope of Corporate Jargon Magnetic Poetry (TM) in front of them and saying, "Make me a job advert out of that! All words MUST be used, or you're fired!" What’s particularly hilarious (out of one long episode of gruesome hilarity) is that they clearly had so much jargon that they were trying to shoe-horn in to the advert that were unable to accommodate all of it into sentences, and so had to make do with forward slashes to separate pairs of words.
I’m picturing the head of HR marching up to someone’s desk and emptying out an envelope of Corporate Jargon Magnetic Poetry (TM) in front of them and saying, “Make me a job advert out of that! All words MUST be used, or you’re fired!”

]]> By: Brad Shorr http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/07/28/how-not-to-write-a-job-advert/comment-page-1/#comment-1142 Brad Shorr Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:42:04 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=345#comment-1142 Clare, I'd like to apply for this position; I am uniquely qualified/embraceable. It's appealing that I can act like a thought leader without actually having to be one. And while I'm not sure I can provide leadership, direction, coaching, mentoring, sales discipline, and team building, I can't help but feel the et cetera tasks are right up my alley. Clare, I’d like to apply for this position; I am uniquely qualified/embraceable. It’s appealing that I can act like a thought leader without actually having to be one. And while I’m not sure I can provide leadership, direction, coaching, mentoring, sales discipline, and team building, I can’t help but feel the et cetera tasks are right up my alley.

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