Job Application (part 3)

Miscellaneous tips to help you out:

Spelling. If you can't spell "cashier" correctly, then how can I believe that you were a very good "caier" at your last job?!

Handwriting. It does matter. No cutesy stuff—when I need an employee, I need one NOW and I won't find it cute. Dot the "i"s with dots, not hearts. No smiley faces. Write neatly—I don't have the time nor the patience to decipher chicken scratch. Your application WILL end up in the "no" file. Pink or other odd colors of ink—your chances are also slim. Blue or black, maybe green. Those are your choices.

An incomplete application also means a "no." If you can't even fill out a job application correctly, then I can only expect you to do an incomplete job for me if I hire you.

Another hint: when you bring in your application, be polite to the cashier. She has a lot of power in my first impression of you. If she tells me that you interrupted her helping a customer to throw the paper at her, then you obviously don't care about customers (or potential co-workers) and won't do well in this workplace. At busy times, *I* might even be that cashier, helping serve customers faster. And if you come in visibly stoned, we don't even read the application. What part of "drug-free workplace" did you not understand?

There is a difference between follow through and being annoying. It's sometimes a fine line, but still….if you call every day and insist on talking with me, even after I've told you that any hiring decisions won't be made until next week, you obviously don't value my time and the other things I have to do. If it's been a week or two since you turned in your application and you haven't heard anything, then it's perfectly fine to call and ask if I received it and had a chance to look at it. If I say we're not hiring, then monthly calls to find out when we will be hiring again are sufficient. DON'T BUG ME.