Questions & Answers

Questions & Answers 

Při psaní průvodního dopisu vyvstanou další otázky, jako například:

Merry:   I'm writing a covering letter. Is it better to type or hand-write it?

Mike McDodd: You should always type your covering letters for applications in

the U.K. - in fact that applies to most countries in Europe. The only country that still uses graphology (which is analysing peoples' handwriting) is France, where you have to hand-write your letter.

Průvodní dopis by měl být vždy psaný na stroji, s výjimkou Francie. To je jediná země, kde ještě užívají grafologa.

Emma: How do you respond to the volume of international applicants that write to

you and they naturally may make mistakes in their letters because they're  not as fluent as perhaps they would like to be. How do you respond? Do you

judge them all the same or do you make allowances?

John Courtis neposuzuje chyby cizinců přísně. Poslechněte si, jak vysvětluje, kdy chyby podle něj nejčastěji vznikají:

You must make allowances because in many cases they will have seen someone else's bad letter and copied it, just because it's there - or they've read a book

which suggests you should write in a stilted form of English and they just copy

that. I always go on and see if I can find something that's really them. When I

do I'm delighted.

Podle Johna Courtise vznikají chyby nejčastěji tím, že uchazeči opisují dopisy ze zastaralých učebnic, kde je angličtina poněkud šroubovaná - stilted, a takový dopis potom zní nepřirozeně. Další otázkou je tón dopisu, například: je dobré vychvalovat firmu, ve které chcete pracovat?

Poslechněte si, před čím Mike McDodd varuje:

Well you have to be careful because - bearing in mind people working

in that company still look forward at the end of the day to going home - and

they question your motivation if you seem adoring of the company and so keen

to join it for no other reason than that it's a company working in a certain

domain. Keep it business like and avoid the words 'love' or 'would really

really like to' or over-stressing. ‘Like’ is a very effective word which sums it

up nicely - which is also, it's personal but can be business like as well.