boglin

Currently looking at application forms, and the sort of crap you need to write to fill up the big spaces. In the process, I've been looking at a couple I've got saved on the PC from a couple of years back. Personally, I can't understand why I wasn't given an interview, with such high quality hard-sell as:

I am experienced in developing ILT resources, including the English department’s Intranet site. In addition to my experience in college, I have my own personal website, which I update frequently, and have ventured into the realm of commercial web design, building a site for a friend’s business, and receiving the handsome payment of a bottle of Plymouth Dry gin.

and further on, addressing skills I feel I would need to develop...

Budget management is another area of which I do not have a great deal of experience. I do however have the vital role of running Beverage World, the English and Media departments’ coffee club. I have successfully co-ordinated this for three years now, and have without fail ensured a quality and economical provision of hot beverages. In teaching, keeping ones colleagues in caffeine is a major responsibility

*shrug* All I can think is that the letter inviting me for interview got lost in the post...