Tech boss astonished by jobseeker’s email

The chief executive of a business software firm says a response he received from an unsuccessful jobseeker is a ‘‘doozy’’.

Ryan Baker is the co-founder and head of Timely which provides appointment booking software for businesses. He was recently prompted to send a pushy applicant for a job an email which said that ‘‘based on your approach to applying for this position, a sales role at Timely would not be a good fit for you’’.

‘‘I appreciate the feedback you have given in your emails on our recruitment process ... my feedback for you is that I have found your communication to us aggressive and unpolished,’’ he wrote.

‘‘You may believe ignoring my advice to follow the application process shows tenacity but your insistence to keep including me in your messages demonstrates other traits that would not suit the way we sell here at Timely,’’ Baker wrote.

In response, the candidate, whom Baker has not identified, said, among other things: ‘‘I really don’t need your words of wisdom and would have thought you would have taken the moral high ground and learnt to shut up. But obviously, you have very little to do and write to me.

‘‘A few years ago I walked into a Merrill Lynch office and got the job I wanted on the spot and they said: I like you came in and asked for a job, that should [sic] guts.

‘‘This was in the US of course not backward Britain or Down Under. I am a bit of a hustler and will step on toes to get things done if I have to.

‘‘Have you met the founder of Twitter? I have … I don’t need to learn anything from descendants of convicts.’’

Baker said the response was a first.

‘‘I have never had a response quite like this one. It is a doozy.’’