Dear Monash University Hargrave-Andrew Library,
Please consider the following feedback on your job ad for a
Serials and Reserve Officer (part time)
- I
highly doubt that the successful applicant will actually be working in a
“dynamic” team. It is a library
for Germain’s sake, one of the few workplaces where being dynamic would be
more of a drawback than an asset, unless you have developed the first library-cum-cabaret-stage
space in Australia, in which case I can kind of see your point.
- “Monash
is a dynamic university”. Please – you’re writing this from a library – get
a goddamn thesaurus and find another adjective!
- “As
the Serials and Reserves Officer you will be responsible for supervising
the activities of others working with serials at Hargrave-Andrews Library
and for liasing with staff in other locations.” Soooo… you want someone
to watch other people work and to gossip with other librarians? Sounds
like a sweet deal, but not especially dynamic.
- “You
will also be part of the Lending Services team and contribute to lending
services, including rostered service point shifts and creating electronic
reading lists.” I guess that although “rostered service point shifts”
sounds to me like a car part, it is probably something librarian-y. It’s
probably fairly un-dynamic too. As for creating electronic reading lists,
that sounds like what I do with iTunes but using books instead of songs. I
can do that! Look:
SOCIAL STATUS AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN 19th CENTURY
LITERATURE
- Pride
and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- The
Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
- Little
Women - Lousia May Alcott
- The
Talented Tenth – W.E.B De Bois
- And
finally: “To be successful you will have… the ability to work as part of a
team or independently” What? You mean either ability will do? Well, I must
say that’s pretty flexible. As far as I am concerned I can definitely do either of those things. I generally decide on the day which one it is I feel like. Would that be ok?
So I guess you can consider this my dynamic application for the job. And by the way, I have been sipping a cup of tea while writing this so let's put "ability to multitask" down on my attributes list as well, shall we?
Thanks, love from Felix
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