The phrase "application for a job" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are formally applying for a job. For example: I have submitted my application for a job at the local library.
It was his first application for a job.
He'd recounted this story in his application for a job at the Review-Journal.
Holm had concealed details of his Stasi past in his application for a job at Berlin's Humboldt University in 2005.
Once you submit an application for a job, you can't change the info you submitted for that particular job.
When you fill out an application for a job, and they ask for your nationality and they find out you are Jewish, they try not to hire you.
But the young woman so adept with numbers still lacked the Social Security number needed just to file an application for a job or summer internship.
---- Fareed Zakaria's "How to Fix the World" in Dec. 8 Newsweek could be used as a job application for a big job at the State Department, given his thoughtful call for Obama to think big, exploiting the goodwill Obama will encounter internationally and avoiding being reflexively reactive in dealing with foreign affairs.
The woman, a 29-year-old mother of one, testified that Mr. Rosario had lured her with promises to give her applications, for a job as a crossing guard and for after-school programs for her son.
Even more striking was a 2005 experiment in which participants evaluated applications for a job as chief of police, scanning résumés that indicated varying levels of formal education and on-the-job experience.
"If a company gets 10 applications for a job, and nine are American, they're going to look very much the same," Mr. Ejvinsson said, wearing a gray suit and white shirt open at the collar, his suit trousers hugging his lower hips like a hip-hopper's.
I am Frank!" If true, that was an application not for a job, but for a restraining order: Frank Booth inhales nitrous oxide, sobs over schmaltzy songs and beats his lover after calling her Mommy.
