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I like this: tl;dr if it'll take the company more effort to reply to your email than you put into sending it, you're doing it wrong. I don't particularly care
by raganwald 14y ago
I like this: tl;dr if it'll take the company more effort to reply to your email than you put into sending it, you're doing it wrong.
I don't particularly care whether it is an employer's market or an employee's market. My rule of thumb is that if your email is going to jobs@foo.com, you can send anything you want. But if you are sending an email to a person by name, it is a matter of courtesy to write a personal note.
Likewise, if that person replies to you from their personal email, you deserve more than an obvious form letter, even if it's just a single sentence.
- loceng 14y agoAgreed. It only makes sense at minimum to say why you're interested in the position.
- SilasX 14y agoTotally. Your scraper/emailer for Who's Hiring should at least include a sentence like, "I particularly like the part about [random string from posting]". I mean, come on, that's not much harder than fizzbuzz ...
- abuiles 14y agoagree with this, actually I prefer to write to people who post <name>@<company.com> rather than jobs@. I feel it is a more personalized chat :)