Chapter Eight

Terrence was checking his email, and after having sifted through a series messages from his family and friends, the daily news updates and the word of the day from dictionary.com, he was surprised to find a remaining unread message from someone by the name of Amy Chu. Terrence did not know anyone called Amy Chu.

Thank you for your job application for the position of Advisor – Global Wealth Management.

After reviewing your resume and cover letter, your educational background and working experience are fulfilled to our requirement. Therefore, we would like to invite you for a phone interview....

Regards,

Amy Chu

Terrence, having completed his last semester of undergraduate studies less than a month ago, had since become a statistic in the Canadian labour unemployment numbers, so this was a timely email which presented the opportunity for him to claw his way back into the respected ranks of society. Terrence had undergone several full-time job interviews before, so he wasn't particularly shocked or astonished at a third party's recognition of his credentials. What had most caught his mind about the email was the way that it was written. It somehow seemed very awkward, he thought.

He read the email again.

"After reviewing your resume and cover letter, your educational background and working experience are fulfilled to our requirement."

Did that mean that prior to them reviewing his resume and cover letter, his education and employment experience did not fulfill their requirement? Did the act of them conducting such a review somehow add or detract from his qualifications? Did they only have one requirement?

None of these were questions that Terrence had any answers to, so he thought it was perhaps best that he accepted the interview opportunity graciously and cast aside his doubts on corporate communications language for another day, a far and distant day when he would actually have a job and these confusing recruitment processes would be behind him.