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colonel_decker
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 Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject: References |
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Can anyone help?
I'm about to apply to Nova. I have the interview next week. ON the application form it requires email addresses for my referees. Unfortunately both of my previous employers are in the UK public sector and have internal email systems. It is not possible to email them from an external PC.
How do I get round this? My CV has the addresses and 'phone numbers. Will this be enough?
I'd hate to think that I could be rejected just for something as trivial as that. |
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luckbox
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject: Re: References |
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| colonel_decker wrote: |
Can anyone help?
I'm about to apply to Nova. I have the interview next week. ON the application form it requires email addresses for my referees. Unfortunately both of my previous employers are in the UK public sector and have internal email systems. It is not possible to email them from an external PC.
How do I get round this? My CV has the addresses and 'phone numbers. Will this be enough?
I'd hate to think that I could be rejected just for something as trivial as that. |
Surely, your refs have their own personal e-mail providers?? Hotmail, Yahoo? If this is no good, how about you provide the phone numbers and snail mail addresses of said refs, and as a gesture of sincerity and genkiness, apologize for the inconvenience and offer to pay NOVA for the long distance phone call costs.
Otherwise, if your credentials are in order, I can't see the lack of a ref e-mail (no fault of your own) being a deciding factor. But then, I'm not NOVA.
Good luck. |
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ec
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah a phone number and address should be enough.I didn't leave an e-mail and it was fine. They just contacted the references by phone instead. |
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Mavis the Fat Fairy
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:39 am Post subject: |
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| I gave them email addresses for my referees but they still phoned them anyway. It shouldn't be a problem. |
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Gordon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| Contact your references and ask for a different email address. An internal email address is pretty much useless. |
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colonel_decker
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the advice everyone.
Just to clarify, I am a civil servant and there is so much red tape and regulations that you have to go through to get anything done. My own supervisor does not have the authority to give a reference and is unwilling to bend the rules and provide their personal email address. A total jobsworth in other words. Officially all refs must go to the local HR manager, whom I don't know personally. The entire department is an absolute nightmare to work for and I really can't wait to get out.
If EC and Mavis got on without emails I should be okay.  |
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