citizen142 wrote:
> If you feel slighted - I apologise to you and your colleagues.
>
> I stand by my statements.
>
> Hampshire CC is no better or worse than my local Council who advertise
> their vacancies via a free Newsletter. Reading the ridiculous language
> they use in the description of the attributes required for their
> vacancies makes me fume and laugh at the same time. I don't think that
> I am alone in finding this mutilation of the English language
> annoying.
>
> If you do a 'Google' thus
>
> jargon+bollocks
>
> you will be entertained for hours - or annoyed!
>
> It just crosses my mind that perhaps the 'copy writers' of such
> convoluted phraseology should be encouraged to read the novels, essays
> and letters of George Orwell who - to my mind - was a master of good,
> simple but succinct English.
>
>
Who are you responding to? Including text to which you are replying
helps understand the issues you are responding to. As a guess it was my
post and I don't feel at all slighted and have nothing to do with HCC
but I have been involved with both public and private sector recruitment
and they are very different. Most of the public sector stuff is in
defensive response to experiences. Most of the examples you give are
relevant to private sector but even there legislation is causing it to
be tightened up.
--
Tony
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" Lord
Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers)
