The Joy of English

It’s true that many Chinese students don’t write very good English, but some of the things we see on cover letters for job applications beg the question of “what exactly were you thinking?”

My boss went to Peking University for a recruiting event today and came home with a stack of cover letters and resume. I flipped to one cover letter, and in the last paragraph, the applicant wrote, “I can work all day and all night on project team analysis…” Uh ok, sure maybe you can but I like hell don’t want to! And this particular dude ended the letter with “That’s all.”