Our job application

We at realFASS made our first job application. We don't know if heavily publicizing ourselves (and hence reaching the ears of higher-ups) would be detrimental to our continuation but we are keeping our fingers crossed. Here's the email we sent to FASS Club:


To whom it may concern,

I hope you don't mind that we don't use the template provided. If you do, hit delete now and stop reading. But if you do that you will be left in the dark and be forever curious about what we have to say. And if you are a cat you will be dead since ..... Ok I shall stop rambling.

First, a brief introduction: 

I am writing on behalf of realFASS. If you have not heard of us, we are a parody/satirical group with a Twitter account and a blog.

http://twitter.com/#!/realFASS

http://realFASS.blogspot.com

On top of our humorous(or so we hope) tweets and blog entries, we do frequently update students on current school events such as CORS bidding, changing of NUSnet passwords, just to name a few recent events. 

Our goals from the start have been simple -

1) To provide a source of entertainment for FASS/NUS students/Whoeverthinkswearefunny

2) To keep FASS/NUS students up to date on latest key official/unofficial events, be it school or non-school related.

So what are we applying for?

We understand you have a Publicity position for 'FASS Identity'. I'm not quite sure what this is, but I'd assume it's just to promote FASS identity and events? (If I am entirely wrong and this is actually a particular event that is occurring, consider this an application for a general 'Publicity' role)

We have a steadily growing pool of followers (currently at 186) with a majority of them from FASS and NUS and the others just following us because we're awesome. (Ok maybe not, maybe we hacked their accounts and clicked 'Follow' without them knowing, maybe we found a bug in Twitter that made random accounts follow us... etc) Thus, I feel we are in a good position to be a publicity agent for FASS Club about whatever events or news that have to be broadcasted. 

More specifically, we are proposing to be your official Twitter account, @realFASS . In other words, no, we do not wish to print fancy posters and give up flyers that end up littering the walkway from Central Library to FASS to advertise for your events. No, we do not wish to overthrow your current/incoming PR team in a violent cutthroat manner.  Instead, we are offering to publicize for FASS Club on a more appealing medium - Twitter. (as compared to emails which I believe many people just delete without reading) 

Our length of commitment should be at least 2 years, maybe 3, maybe 481516, depending on whether we can get any successors to take over the reins.

Why should you accept this / Why are we proposing this?

You will be able to reach a large audience quickly and they'll actually read the message without deleting it. FASS will be known to be hip and happening with such an awesome Twitter account (of course this is through our rose-tinted glasses, maybe we are in actual fact stupid and lame to everyone else.) You can check out our Timeline for the style of tweets that we have. I suggest going back to since our inception in November/December 2010, some of our best tweets were from back then. This will also help you to decide whether what we write is appropriate to be representative of FASS Club, whatever image you hope to portray.

To answer the second question, obviously we will benefit from the publicity involved in being FASS Club's official Twitter account. I would personally beam with pride to see 'follow @realFASS' plastered all over FASS - in fact, I may actually do that myself if this does not go through successfully. Time to recce the security cameras. (I'm kidding, don't arrest me.)

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Anyway, if you have read up to this point, I laud your effort, this has been such a long email. In fact, if you have read up to this point, I would say our chances of success are slightly above 50%, since if you had deemed this outright impossible or ridiculous you would just stop reading and delete it. Or perhaps you think our writing is hilarious, then go ahead and follow our Twitter account. Whatever the case, on behalf of @realFASS, i thank you for your time and effort in reading this and if you do respond, in replying.

Regards,

realFASS

P.S. If you have not already noticed, we are choosing to remain anonymous.