A request is usually made through a form or other document.
From the Latin sollicitudo , request is a careful diligence or request . The verb request , for its part, refers to asking, intending or looking for something.
For example: “This type of information must be requested by calling our customer service number: specialized personnel will assist you there,” “I am tired of filling out job applications and no one calling me,” “The club, at the request of the authorities.” , provided a list with the names of the members who attended the game.”
Job application
A job application is a contact letter that is sent to a company where you want to work. The interested person must explain, precisely and formally, the reason for their contact and detail their experience, skills, etc.
Typically, the job application is accompanied by a curriculum vitae ( CV ), although some companies develop their own applications and make them available to workers who wish to apply: “The company will accept applications until next Friday,” “Congratulations. ” , your job application has been approved: you will soon be part of our team.”
Obtaining a passport
The process that a citizen begins to obtain a passport is known as a passport application , a document that allows one to leave one country and enter another.
The characteristics of the procedure depend on each State : “The passport application takes about thirty days to be completed,” “I have to complete the passport application as soon as possible if I want to travel to Europe at the end of this year.”
Applying for a passport requires completing certain procedures and steps.
Application for working life
In Spain, the working life application allows any individual to receive a complete report of all the periods in which they have contributed to the Social Security System, whether as an employee or as a self-employed person. This is the work history, which includes the start and cessation dates of each activity, as well as the contribution balance for each case.
Among the reasons why we should request this document is the mere need to make a resume and not remember the exact dates of all our work experiences, the desire to check how many years we have been contributing or, more importantly, the doubt with regarding the fact that some of the companies we have worked for have not registered us with Social Security.
Difference with an order
Although a request is, in essence, a request, both this noun and its verb, request, have a more formal, more serious nature, which is why they are not usually used between people with a close or affectionate bond. For example, if someone wants to borrow a book from a friend they can say "I wanted to ask you to lend me Crime and Punishment" , while a person who wants to unsubscribe from a service plan requests it.
There is another nuance that differentiates these two families of terms, and that emerges from their current use. When we talk about applying, there seems to be a right to do so that is implicit in the context: someone applies for a job or a passport because a company or organization made that possibility available to citizens in the first place. A request, on the other hand, usually interests the person who makes it more than the person who receives it: a homeless person asks for money to overcome their own economic situation and the help they get will be beneficial only for them, although the other party may feel uncomfortable. glad to have extended a hand.
Finally, requests are usually made through forms previously designed by the entity to which they are addressed, or through formal letters, given that, as explained in previous paragraphs, these are requests of a formal nature.