Email Cover Letters
March 5th, 2010 admin
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When you are using email to job search it’s important to send your messages the right way – or they won’t get opened, let alone read. I’ve received emails with no subject lines (the chances of me opening them are slim), emails applying for jobs that I’m not hiring for and never heard of, and emails written in abbreviations, acronyms, and slang better suited to texting. To be honest, if I have to figure out what it says, it’s going to get trashed. Annoying for me, but worse for the sender, are when my replies bounce because they got their own email address wrong (it happens) or their account is full. Some of the…
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