UK Editor 'Fed Up' of 'Turgid' Applications, Asks For All Job Apps To Be Tweeted
If you want a job at one of Northcliffe Media’s papers in the south east of England, you won’t be able to apply online. You won’t be able to send an e-mail, fill out an ATS form, and you won’t even be able to give the guy a call.
This job ad, posted recently, gives only one way to respond to the ad: Twitter.
On editorial director Alan Geere’s blog, he explains the reasoning:
I’m fed up wading through turgid ‘letters of application’ and monstrous CVs outlining an early career in retail handling and a flirtation with the upper slopes of the Andes.
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