Fri, 16 Aug 2013
It’s been doing the rounds on the internet for a while it seems, but recruiter.co.uk was quite amused (and slightly distressed) at one of the most bizarre job application letters you’ll ever likely see…
 
A picture of the letter – where the applicant and company name are hidden - is available online in a myriad of places.
 
It reads:
 
“Application for Employment

I refer to the recent death of the Technical Manager at your company and hereby apply for the replacement of the deceased Manager.

Each time I apply for a job, I get a reply that there's no vacancy but in this case I have caught you red-handed and you have no excuse because I even attended the funeral to be sure that he was truly dead and buried before applying.

Attached to my letter is a copy of my CV and his death certificate.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely”
 
Longer (and stranger) versions of the letter also appear, for which do consult Google, while both a handwritten and typed version can be seen – leading recruiter.co.uk to think this may not be genuine.
 
What we do know is that it is genuinely very, very odd…