Oops: College Student Sends Mass, Unprepared E-Mail to Wall Street Trying to Get a Job
- Posted on October 1, 2011 at 11:46pm by
Becket Adams
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Wall Street is a tricky place. It is a tightly wound, high-stakes industry that faithfully abides by its professional (and oftentimes unspoken) “do’s“ and ”dont’s.”
For example, during a Wall Street job interview, an applicant should be assertive, professional, use only the industry approved terms, and dress appropriately. An applicant should not seem overeager and should make sure to give the appearance of being completely interested in that job only.
Pretty much like any interview, right?
Not really. If you make a big mistake in just any regular interview, you may not be as likely to become the butt of an industry-wide joke for having violated the sacred “do’s“ and ”don’ts.”
What should you not do?
Do not do what this soon-to-be graduate from the University of Pennsylvania did. Don’t carpet-bomb potential Wall Street employers with a rushed, un-proofread, generic e-mail asking for a job:
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How did he get all these addresses?
In the e-mail, the student writes:
Hello,
My name is ______ and I will be graduating from the University of Pennsylvania this May. I am very interested in investment banking upon graduation and I wanted to know if your firm would be hiring analysts this coming summer. I know you are busy and would appreciate any time you could give me. Thank you in advance and I hope to hear from you soon. My rsum is attached.
Best regards,
Ouch.
First of all, Bcc if you want to include multiple contacts. Many recruiters will immediately mark an e-mail as spam if it seems like it had little effort put into it (especially if it has the appearances of being a one-size-fits-all message).
Secondly, make sure your spelling is correct. Not many employers are interested in an applicant’s “rsum.” That will disqualify any candidate on the spot with no questions asked.
To be fair, it seems that it was out of carelessness rather than sheer stupidity that the email was sent. Scrambling to correct his error, the student quickly sent out an email apologizing for the major faux pas:
Good for him.
Although he tried to correct his error, the banking industry is infamous for being unforgiving and brutal on people who make these kind of mistakes. As a result of the mass e-mailing, the student’s job request has been “making the rounds” with “everyone . . . mocking him,” reports Business Insider.
Hopefully, he will have better luck elsewhere.
Update: How ironic. There was a typo in the original version of this story that has since been identified, caught and liquidated. Thank you.
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Comments (69)
Mizurax
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 8:46pmFor all of you “My Pet Peeve Is When People Spell Things Incorrectly” people out there…
Let me eplaxin to you why terhe is asobtuley no raseon to mkae scuh a fsus auobt spleinlg. If it was so iorpmatnt, you wulod not be albe to raed tihs. Hweveor, gevin the way the hamun biarn wroks, splieng isn’t as inorpnant as smoe of you mkae it out to be. Tihs wsan’t as hrad to raed as one wulod tinhk, was it?
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 2:11amHowever, if you do not feel the need to correctly spell simple words, then I must also assume that you are not to be trusted with making multi-million dollar deals, or designing my jet engines, or anything productive, for that matter.
And believe it or not, there are a great number of similarly-spelled words that have vastly different meanings. For example, pines and…well, you get the idea.
Report Post »DallyWama
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 2:30am@Mizurfax
If you are talking about spelling on the internet, I agree. Leet speak is common and entertaining. However, in the medical world, misspelled words could cost someone their life. It is important in other fields too. Serving a warrant, for instance.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:47amThe public school my children went to did not put a priority on spelling. I think you see more of it now than in the past when it was pushed more in the school system. To me it shows that the person is either careless or stupid. I also don’t like when they use the wrong spelling for a word….like their/there, etc. But for the younger set it seems to not be important. The education system used to focus on basics but now they have branched out into other things and have put less of a priority on spelling and penmanship. Time allotment have squeezed some things out.
Report Post »norway1516
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:40am@Mizurax you’re brilliant lol the mind is set to auto correct many mistakes that it assumes what is actually there.
Report Post »BobMaynes
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:12amWell, with all due respect to your arguement… the only reason your mispellings are even close to being understandable, is that you start from a baseline of correctly spelled words. In other words, there is only one “generation loss” of errors. Obviously not correct, but readable with some effort by the reader. The flaw in your arguement is that, were your misspellings accepted as being just as readable, just as valid as the correctly spelled words, what happens when the next generation loss kicks in? Reason becomes raesen become aresen becomes arson, and so on. It’s the Tower of Bable, but without rules.
Report Post »Bloody Sam
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:34am“…spelling isn’t as important as some of you make it out to be.”
Except that people do judge you by the words you use. Proper spelling, grammar and syntax are the keys that help people unlock who we are and what we are when they must make such judgements quickly.
Report Post »It also allows us to show that all the hard work we have done to properly educate ourselves was not wasted effort. It takes very little extra time and effort to spell check and proof read.
It is well worth whatever extra effort is required.
@leftfighter
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:49amActually, yes. It was pretty tough to read.
Let me try to approach this in terms everyone can easily understand: Do you want a guy that can’t spell, can‘t be bothered to use the spellcheck button and clearly doesn’t even proofread himself to put your stock orders through?
Do you remember “Fat Finger?”
http://www.businessinsider.com/cnbc-a-citigroup-trader-made-the-big-fat-finger-error-2010-5
Yeah. I‘m not so sure that’s a guy I want on the trading floor. (o_O)
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 12:21pmSpelling is not important, if you’re ambition is to pump gas, be a janitor, be a bus boy, or be a garbage collector. If you are applying for a 6-figure job on Wall Street, you might want to use that nifty spell check feature….
Report Post »peachamom
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 12:31pmBobmaynes–
Report Post »“Arguement”?
ltb
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 1:07pmIs this really newsworthy?
Report Post »Lil Ole Me
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:56pmToday’s youth are repeatedly looking for short cuts. Anyone who doubts this needs only to use the popularity of text and chat abbreviations that have made their way into accepted use as an example. I am embarrassed for him that, as a college senior, his level of preparation to enter the workforce is so low.
Report Post »Mizurax
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:08pm@Dallywama, No I’m not talking about 1337 speak. And you point about a misspelled medical word isn’t relevant here. Those words aren’t commonly used enough to be recognized by the brain in this way.
@Jujubeebee, I never said that learning how to spell in school wasn’t important. If you don’t learn how to spell, then you can’t read the words regardless of whether or not they are spelled correctly. Learning to spell in elementary, middle, and high school is clearly important. Oh, and penmanship? Really? For what?
@Bobmaynes, same thing I said to Juju. Learning how to spell in school is important. But judging someone over one spelling mistake, in my opinion, can cause you to miss the forest for the trees.
@Bloody Sam. All else being equal, of course the guy with no spelling errors wins. But writing someone off immediately simply because they used “ie” after “c” isn’t very wise, if you ask me.
I’ll say it again. My point wasn’t that spelling is useless. Clearly it’s necessary. But I’d take the guy that makes a silly spelling error, yet can think outside of the box, any day over the guy that instantly judges someone over a misspelled word.
Report Post »Rumrunner3
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 8:29pmBut they know it all, ask my eighteen year old, fourteen, twelve and ten year olds also.
Report Post »Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 3:01pmWut 4 n00b!!!!1! ep1c f4iL.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 3:46pmI actually received a resume in the last few years where the listed e-mail address was hotguy69@xxxxx
That just flabergasts me. With free e-mail addys available by the ton, why wouldn’t you come up with something slightly more professional to put on your resume? Because the schools and parents don’t teach any common sense anymore.
Report Post »zorro
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:51pmJaycen…that is very funny. But I’ve got a better one for ya:
flamingmonkeyass@xxxxx
No effort into looking professional.
Report Post »TPaine
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 2:49pmP.S. – I’ll be right out front on the Exchange, in the SEIU red shirt with the goatee and the bullhorn, for the next two weeks, so I am available for an interview at a moment’s notice.
Report Post »RosePurple
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 4:39pmHAHAHAHAHAHA…..That’s classic TPAINE!!!!!!!
Report Post »rockstone
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 8:22pmThat is funny. If you can‘t join ’em, beat ‘em…..
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 2:17pmOur schools are putting out idiots these days. No one thinks anymore before they act. This really saddens me.
Report Post »TriforcePlayer
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 1:25pmWell God Bless him.
Report Post »GTH
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 12:57pmHey! I didn’t see the “FABULOUSFAB” in that e-mail address list.
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 12:37pmI can understand why this poor fellow is missing when it comes to getting a decent job in his chosen profession. First of all, the classes that they teach do not correspond with what they should be concentrating on. What I mean by that is all these non-sense classes, like sociology, cultural anthropology and such in order to even get to the classes that are technically what you came to learn! Not to mention about the liberal crap that they throw at you with stories that identify how we have mistreated people in the past and that we are the ones that are wrong. I don’t think that college books should have liberal opinions in them to begin with, just stated true facts pertaining to the subjects. It’s terrible that we do not put our focus on our children in what they are learning and emphesis on learning more math, science, reading, writing, physics, than all the other garbage that they throw at you. Did I mention that Algebra should be taught early? Not in 6th grade but earlier. Our school systems have failed many, now how are we going to get them on the right track? The Chinese and everyone else have a one up on us because of it! Education is the only way out of poverty in this day and age!
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 12:40pmemphesis = emphasis
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 1:47pmI agree, but you must realize that the woman’s studies, sociology, cultural anthropology and the like are simply classes that help brainwash our students. These classes aren’t intended to help one get a job in the future. No, they are there to get the leftist point of view across over and over and over again.
Report Post »Contrarian51
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 5:55pmNo hyphen in nonsense, and ending a sentence with a preposition? Tsk tsk.
Actually, you’d grade out somewhere near the 95th percentile around here as far as grammar and spelling, which essentially proves your point, I suppose.
Report Post »ComeAndTakeThis
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 8:11pmThere are plenty of jobs in the oil field where hard work and an ability to learn will allow you to move up and make a great living. The pay for most oil field workers after 5 to 10 years in almost any service field is low to mid 6 figure. The work is hard and the hours are long. But there are many running multi-million dollar operations with no more than a high school diploma or less. The problem these days there are not many in this country willing to work 80 plus hours a week. The illegals are infiltrating this business and are finding it easy to displace the lazy Americans.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 12:19pmOh well guess he can go protest with the unwashed on Wall Street now .Or.. There is always his parents basement where he can turn his bitterness about his own stupidity against those evil successful people. You know the type , leftwing idiots post here all the time.
Report Post »Zer0
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 1:05pm^Lol!!!
Report Post »Libby Tarian
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 12:00pmIt is a wonder he did not text his application for a job. It might look like this?
got a job i nd $
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 11:27amMY question is this??? How does a student get the mass email addresses???
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:43amhahaha
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:30amPerfect example of how texting has corrupted the world of communication! Ask a high school student to sit down without any tech aids and write a 500 word essay and you will find 100 mistakes.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:48amWhat is really getting interesting . are tv news stories . The twenty something adults today hardly ever use the old. Who, what where when and why when putting a story together. And you can plainly hear the lack of this single writing rule in their stories. Even the reporters today like at a White House press conference never use it to get details on a issue. Today it’s all about gloss over. Remember I said the lost surface to air missiles in Libya would be a major deal. Intelligence here made mention when Libya first starting to fall apart, But no reporter was smart enough to use that simple rule for details.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 11:37amUgh. Even most of the college students don’t know how to write… dh took a class where he had to read stories written by others in an upper-level college course for writing majors. It’s amazing how awful some of them were.
I cringe when I read grammatical errors in professional publications, but it happens a lot more nowadays than it should. I do know a lot of writers that can write well, but there’s a lot that need to go back and take a fourth-grade English class with my daughter.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 12:47pmit doesn’t help that teachers are told not to emphasize grammar and spelling.
Report Post »Claire in Springfield
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 4:14pmBROOKE LORREN
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 22:37am
” … I cringe when I read grammatical errors in professional publications, but it happens a lot more nowadays than it should. I do know a lot of writers that can write well, but there’s a lot that need to go back and take a fourth-grade English class with my daughter.”
That’s 3 lots.
Report Post »1. Delete the first one.
2. Substitute “many”.
3. Change to “there are many”.
Brooke Lorren
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:04pmThanks.
If I was publishing this for profit, then I’d care. ;-)
Report Post »Kisha
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:23amI don’t know why this is even a story. Who cares if some idiot doesn’t know how to apply for a job in his industry of choice? I certainly don’t. Not getting a responses to his email or negative responses will teach him a lesson. Well, you’d hope so right?
I mean really? This is a story? Come on!? There are plenty if idiots out there. Lets not glorify them, mkay!? I feel stupider for even reading this article.
Report Post »Becket Adams
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 2:03pmDear Kisha,
Stupider is not the preferred form of the word. Now I feel most stupiderest for having read it. Look what you’ve done.
Cordially,
Report Post »T. Becket Adams
The10thAmendment
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 2:51pm@ Kisha
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:23am
I don’t know why this is even a story. Who cares if some idiot doesn’t know how to apply for a job in his industry of choice? I certainly don’t. Not getting a responses to his email or negative responses will teach him a lesson. Well, you’d hope so right?
I mean really? This is a story? Come on!? There are plenty if idiots out there. Lets not glorify them, mkay!? I feel stupider for even reading this article.
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You started out so well, and then? Flop!
After your first three sentences things started going downhill grammatically. “Not getting a responses to his email or negative responses will teach him a lesson.” O U C H! Two directive should have proper punctuation. That’s after guessing that the the first plural of “response” was merely a typographical error. So what should that sentence have looked like? Not getting a response to his email or, negative responses, will teach him a lesson.
“Well, you’d hope so right?” Sounds arrogant with that punctuation location. Let’s fix it without the condensation. Well you’d hope so, right?”
“I mean really”, is not a question. Drop the question mark after “Come on”. Drop the exclamation point after “mkay!” (Acceptable in a story, but not grammatically. “okay” is right). “Stupider”? Seriousl
Report Post »texasken
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:20amMaybe, before the author of this piece posted it, he should have proofread his own work. The email does not say, “May name is”, it says, “My name is…”
Report Post »kralspaces
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:27amThere may be jobs at the chicken farm down in Alabama soon. He should resend his resume there.
Report Post »Zorro1
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:49amTexasken–
Report Post »Perfect catch!
What’s sad is that everybody else missed it.
Congratulations.
GeorgieJo
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 12:18pmTEXAS
Report Post »Maybe its Randy pretending to be EARL…..LMAO
Sheepdog911
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:10amHiring this guy would be like dating Monica Lewinsky … you, wourself would become the butt of the joke and ridicule. This guy would be better served to go change his name and then try again …. with a new rsum.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:09amThis is our Liberal College education system hard at work….
I weep for the species
Report Post »LindaB11
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:04amLet‘s forget the lack of use of Bcc and mispelling resume’, the paragragh is a massive run of thoughts with no form or skills.
WOW this is what college is sending out these days? I guess, the professors are too busy teaching their liberal academics and pro obama rehetoric to make sure they can spell and form a correct sentence.
Report Post »ninewishes
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:26am“misspelling” lol
Report Post »Truthurts
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:35amAs a former employer of fresh graduates, I can confirm that they can’t do math either. With the help of federal funding, the ‘60’s socialist generation of college students turned college professors have produced a generation of degreed illiterates. This is one more reason why America is losing our competitive edge in the world market.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:57amSomehow I have to wonder just how “accidental” this mass e-mailing really was.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 11:06amHow do you get all those contacts in your address book? Pleaseeee!
Report Post »mikee1
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:45amPlease, try to understand, young, confused LIBERALS. Your liberal gov. is into CRONIE CAPITALISM. Look at GOV. MOTORS AND ALL THE GREEN COS. Odumbo Inc. takes care of their friends and themselves. Are any of you getting any of that money? The stimulus money could have all gone to we, the everyday citizens. That would have actually stimulated the economy. They think you’re too stupid to get any money. Agreed, a lot of the rinos are just as bad, OR WORSE. But do not support the liberals any longer. GO TEA PARTY OR LIBERTARIAN. The liberals want all ENSLAVED TO THE GOV. You can take that to the bank, if you still have a bank account.
Report Post »Marc Jacobs
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:30amMaybe he should just be hanging with the Wall Street Rotters…..ooopss… I meant rioters
Report Post »Runelkrunforit
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:17amI just crack up at the people that come in looking for a job, dressed like a gang banger, while their buddies mill areound the lobby as they fill out an application. Fat chance….
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 12:55pmLIKE that scene in GOODWILL HUNTING where Bennie Affleck goes in for MATT Pay MORE TAXES DAMON…..
BTW Bennie will run for public office IMHO He married a girl from OHIO.
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:11amYou’ll have to excuse the idiot…he composed and posted this while attending one of the “days of rage” protests.
Report Post »matt708
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:02amthey didn’t do a good job at the college in how to get a job. maybe the kid missed that class. money thrown out the window for his education
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 8:57amHe could get a job right now as a Man-Made Global Warming scientist, Right Now. He could use his prolific writing skill’s to produce proof positive that GW Bush, Republicans, Tea Partiers, and anyone leaning Right cause’s Man-Made Global Warming.Or he could produce fake G W BUSH’s Air Force Records. Or Birth Certificates for illegal Africans.
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