Application letter for net celebrated on the net: "This is how love stories begin"
Created: 09/14/2022, 15:04
By: Christoph Gschossmann
"You need me and I need you" - an applicant at Netto gets straight to the point.
© Twitter/switzerlandok2
Application letters are boring?
Perhaps that's what the author of this cover letter thought too - and concentrated on the essentials.
Duisburg / Munich - HR professionals read them like other books: letters of application.
Standard texts, phrases.
One cover letter works like the other.
Only when someone stands out from the crowd will the recruiter probably become curious.
In this case, this could not have been due to particularly embellished details - but simply to the bare minimum.
On Twitter, a user posted this cover letter for a temporary job at a Duisburg branch of the discounter Netto (a Oktoberfest offer from Netto could displease genuine Munich residents).
He does not reveal how he got there.
In the text of the cover letter see very few sentences to read.
It starts - still quite standard here - with a "Dear Sir or Madam".
So far, so normal.
Then the applicant gets straight to the point: "You need me and I need you," he writes, followed by several blank lines, possibly to let this sentence work.
He or she concludes with his wish: "I would be happy to convince you of my strengths in a personal conversation" and says goodbye "best regards".
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The users on Twitter celebrate the applicant for his direct manner. Even the person posting himself: "That's how love stories begin," says the text of the tweet.
Another user writes: "I would invite the person immediately." It was "someone who doesn't linger around for long, but gets straight to the point and also signals that he wants to work, worth his weight in gold."
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Another user sees it this way: "The classic cover letters are just forced, repeated gibberish anyway."
"That's a meaningful short application," is another comment.
And another reads: "Seriously, he/she shows humor, courage and originality.
In two sentences.
Flawless.
Overqualified for net.
Next!”
(cg)
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