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When you Tweet a CEO asking for a job make sure your English is impeccable. Stephen Karanja, A Kenyan Twitter user, sent a Tweet to Bob Collymore asking for a job. That’s all well and good but he did so in SMS language (where one uses short forms of words instead of in full). He responded by pointing out the poor English used.

So job seekers please take note, use proper English when approaching prospective employers, whether online or offline.

1. Job Seeker

2. Bob Collymore’s Response

 

3. Safaricom’s Conciliatory Tweet

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3 Responses

  1. coldtusker

    James, I may be mistaken but I believe the following phrase ‘He responded by pointing out the bad English used.’ would have been better phrased ‘He responded by pointing out the poor English used.’ and since I do not know if I can end the sentence with a ‘ I shall make this a run-on sentence. By the way, I dare not use BTW in my comment, Safaricom responded to Stephen’s tweet at 3.39am while Bob Collymore did so at 7.35am and to keep the story in perspective you might want to flip the order in which the tweets are displayed.

    • wamathai

      Thank you for your comment ColdTusker :-).

      1. ‘Bad English’ is slang so you are right when you say that ‘poor English’ is a better fit. I shall update the post to correct that.

      2. Bob’s Tweet is the focus of the article and it is better if it stays where it is. Safaricom’s Tweet was just an addition which the article could have done without and therefore not important enough to put before Bob’s.