1. Make sure that the ‘from’ address for your emails is professional (ie not badgrrl66@aol.com) and that it’s not blank. (yes, I just received a job application email where the from line is actually blank. I didn’t know this was possible. and badgrrl66 emailed for an internship a couple years back.)
2. Consider the text of your email to be the cover letter, and make sure you write a cover letter. Resume-only emails go directly in the trash. And really people…try to at least make *some* reference to the company, the industry, something, anything to indicate that you aren’t just pasting in one email address after another and hitting send again and again…
3. Even if you majored in literature, try to avoid writing sentences like this: “I have a desire to explore fields that I might not have considered before, simply for the fact that an insufficient work experience goes against everything I believe in.”
Posted by Stephen Bronstein at February 27, 2006 09:50 PM