SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
#46
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
Is anyone having trouble mailing the application. Mine has been bounced back for being too big
Initially my email address said i was over the limit of 21M so i skinnied a couple of files down, and managed to get it all away but it gets knocked back at SAPols end.
Any suggestions?
Initially my email address said i was over the limit of 21M so i skinnied a couple of files down, and managed to get it all away but it gets knocked back at SAPols end.
Any suggestions?
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
Is anyone having trouble mailing the application. Mine has been bounced back for being too big
Initially my email address said i was over the limit of 21M so i skinnied a couple of files down, and managed to get it all away but it gets knocked back at SAPols end.
Any suggestions?
Initially my email address said i was over the limit of 21M so i skinnied a couple of files down, and managed to get it all away but it gets knocked back at SAPols end.
Any suggestions?
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
Did they get it ok and were thet happy with it.... Am fretting in case i get it wrong.
Last edited by desperately seeking; Mar 31st 2011 at 2:06 pm.
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
I sent it Tuesday and have had no reply but at least it wasn't rejected. I would hope that if there was a problem they would have let me know by now. I guess I probably should have put a read receipt on it. 200 dpi is the quality we use for scanning CPS files and is perfectly legible for text/documents. For colour docs I used 300dpi in colour but there was only 2 of them and my passport size photo was a colour jpeg.
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
I sent it Tuesday and have had no reply but at least it wasn't rejected. I would hope that if there was a problem they would have let me know by now. I guess I probably should have put a read receipt on it. 200 dpi is the quality we use for scanning CPS files and is perfectly legible for text/documents. For colour docs I used 300dpi in colour but there was only 2 of them and my passport size photo was a colour jpeg.
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
Crap, even scanning greyscale at 200 dpi, the file still comes out at 9mb Well i'll try it again an see if it goes. ...... what's wrong with fedex-ing it all i'll never know
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
It wasn't small enough.........knocked back again. :curse:
Rescanning at 100dpi.............
I emailed them and asked if it was ok to courier stuff to them but they said email applications only.
Rescanning at 100dpi.............
I emailed them and asked if it was ok to courier stuff to them but they said email applications only.
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
Are you using pdf files? Also, instead of grey scale try black and white only. May be better than going for lower resolution.
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
Other reason could be that their mailbox is full. It may be worth trying very early morning, when they've had chance to clear any backlog. If it still rejected it.
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
B&W came out horrible, so will persevere with Grayscale. Out of curiousity, do you know anyone else who is applying? This board is much Q-er than i thought it would be. A lass from my old nick was going to apply but has bottled it. Other than that i don't know anyone who is.
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
I sent an email asking about any data limits and that got through ok, so i guess there is a limit somewhere along the line.
B&W came out horrible, so will persevere with Grayscale. Out of curiousity, do you know anyone else who is applying? This board is much Q-er than i thought it would be. A lass from my old nick was going to apply but has bottled it. Other than that i don't know anyone who is.
B&W came out horrible, so will persevere with Grayscale. Out of curiousity, do you know anyone else who is applying? This board is much Q-er than i thought it would be. A lass from my old nick was going to apply but has bottled it. Other than that i don't know anyone who is.
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
I've been keeping an eye on a few of the forums and they have all gone quiet recently. I personally know of one other who is definitely applying and I'm led to believe that quite a few in my force are doing. I believe that Sapol had sound 1000 expressions of interest and if even half that apply it's a fair amount for 90 posts. I guess once the forms are in it's a waiting game to see if we go through.
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Re: SAPOL Recruitment Drive - 14Mar to 8Apr 2011
If I wasn't so close to retirement I might have been tempted............
.......... so I've just popped in to wish all of you folks who have applied to SApol the very best of luck.
Dread - x
.......... so I've just popped in to wish all of you folks who have applied to SApol the very best of luck.
Dread - x