Translation please?
I write and edit words for a living; but if any client sent me this, I’d ditch them:
This is your chance to contribute to the effective regeneration of major opportunity sites. You will mange [sic] the development control functions for major planning applications and appeals, ensuring the service facilitates high quality development solutions that address the issues of sustainable communities. The ability to engage with our diverse community and build positive and productive relationships to ensure high quality outcomes, and secure community benefits will be essential. In addition, you will have comprehensive knowledge of planning and regeneration gained through extensive planning management experience.
Apart from being unintelligible, there’s no spark of humanity in this at all. You’d never guess it was an advert to recruit someone with power over the environment in which we live and work.
Actually, I take that back. It’s all to easy to guess that it is.
Sadly, it’s an advert for one of the most difficult jobs in the world: Major Applications and Appeals Manager in Hackney’s new “Regeneration and Planning Division”.
Anyway, if you live locally, watch out. Pretty soon there’s going to be someone on £50k per year trying to “engage” with you. And remember - if they ask you to get into their “high quality outcome”, just say no and walk quickly away.
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I wouldn’t get mange, no mattter how much they paid me.
Yuck.
Puss
Comment by Glamourpuss — 10th June, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
The ability to engage with our diverse community and build positive and productive relationships to ensure high quality outcomes
This could equally be applied to a Hamburg bordello, a mob hit squad or the CIA’s black ops section.
Comment by bill — 10th June, 2008 @ 8:31 pm
Ha! I THOUGHT it was Hackney Council by the end of the first line. By the time I saw the reference to engaging with a diverse community - I KNEW it was.
Comment by Venichka — 10th June, 2008 @ 9:09 pm