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Glad that he bothered to follow up but disappointingly short on the details.

When I read the original I thought it was all good, apart from:

1. <<Possess strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills. If you can't tell the difference between "you're" and "your", your never going to be able to get you're points across to me.>> There are plenty of people out there who have correct grammar but terrible communication skills.

2. he seems to think that people are unable to type their e-mail address correctly and that they have not yet figured out how to copy and paste their e-mail address on web forms.

These seemed very arrogant to me and the anonymous psychologists comments in the follow-up re-inforce that.



I thought it was supposed to be a parody of real job adverts / application forms, which are usually quite arrogant and ridiculous and almost never evidence of 'excellent interpersonal communication skills.'




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