I reached my wit’s end the other day (can I say that when we’re talking about five months previous?) and resorted to lying shamefacedly but that was ok because it was through the non-face medium of email, and I smacked off this application. It’s more than just this email - click on the bloody links. I think it was actually a good package but the Circle Recruitment guys didn’t think so. Seem to remember the salary being circa £50,000. Unfortunately I’ve yet to see a penny of it as they never emailed me back.
Here’s my application:
Solutions Architect Job Application
To emma.johnston@circlerecruitment.com
Hi, I am applying for the job of Solutions Architect in Manchester. Here is my cover letter, and here is my CV (both are Google Docs). For reasons explained in my cover letter, I would recommend reading my cover letter first.
Best wishes,
Tom Baxter
Editor’s note: For the idiots who don’t know about hyperlinks, I’ve helpfully put copy-and-paste jobs of the documents below:
Tom Baxter CV
THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT HERE- PLEASE SEE MY COVER LETTER FOR EXPLANATION AS TO WHERE IT IS.
Tom Baxter Cover Letter
Dear Missus Emma Johnston,
My name is Tom Baxter. I herewith apply for the job of Software Architect in Manchester, in return for £65,000 a year. As will unravel in the current epistle, I hail from Italy by way of Britain, and am hopelessly keen for this job. Please, peruse my offer at your pleasure.
I begin. The second time I knew I wanted to be a software architect was when I saw the recent film Inception (2010). Not only is it a complete thriller - I sat on my seat for the entire film - but it is also a fascinating exploration into the tensions and troubles involved in multi-layering architectural systems of software. To be the architect! Leonardo Di Caprio, a man, like me, of Italian origin*!
The second time, I say, because I already knew before that I wanted to be a software architect. For that, we can reserve only the descriptor ‘the first time.’ I have degrees in both software development (Florence University) and both architecture (Cambridge University). To bring the two together is a passion that to be most honest can only, only, be realised in the position of Software Architect. “To deny a man his passion is to deny a thunderbolt of Zeus” (Homer, The Odyssey)
I can’t find my CV because I have just moved into a new computer, but if you could see it you would enjoy it. Let’s just say that I’ve hinted at its quality thusfar in the cover letter here, and there is a considerable degree of overlap! If I had it attached, you would see that yes!, indeed, I attended Florence and Cambridge University! And you would have an iron-strong sense that I, me, am the man for the job. I skinned my ass working for Microsoft the past three years. I now offer to flesh it for you. You say “Ability to travel up to 70 percent of the time.” For you, Emma, I will travel 99% of the time.
Yours sincerely,
Tom “Quatro Beeros” Baxter
P.S. I have re-read your job description, only to discover somewhat to my horror that this for a Solutions Architect not a Software Architect. Semiotics, if you ask me. So please, third official, get out your numbers board, and when play is stopped substitute ‘Solutions’ for ‘Software’!
* My Anglicised moniker doth deceive: I was spawned in the country of my birth (England) but moved to Italy aged only two.
