Recruitment emails from big companies are notoriously
impersonal and packed to the gills with corporate marketing-speak.
So Paul Fenwick, a programmer in Melbourne, Australia, was
surprised to receive a message last summer from “People Operations” at Google
that sounded remarkably human, even funny.
According to tweets from Fenwick, the recruiter appealed
to his listed interests on LinkedIn, including his love of Nyan Cat costumes
and telling people they’re wrong. (It appears he has since updated his
interests on his profile.)
Fenwick tweeted that, since recruiters on LinkedIn are
often so lame, he had ignored the message until recently.
It seems Weston Fillman, the Google recruiter, has
thoroughly read the rules and still won’t give up:
He writes to Quartz: “I sent [the email] to Paul in a
creative effort to get in touch and play off his apparent sense of humor which
was found on his LinkedIn profile. It took him almost a year to respond, but
I’m glad he did.”
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