Politis Pointer #2: Sending Unsolicited Emails
Categories: Politis Communications, Politis Pointers, Writing.
This Politis Pointer first ran on June 16, 2006 on DavidPolitis.com. It is re-purposed below with a few minor changes.
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Back to this same unsolicited email I received yesterday (6/16/06) from a job applicant, included in the To field were email addresses for 15 different companies, some of which are direct competitors of Politis Communications.
Nope, I’m not kidding. And in reviewing the addresses, it’s clear that this job applicant did a bit of Web digging/scraping and came up with potential employment email addresses. These included addresses beginning with contact@, employment@, info@ and resumes@.
Naturally, since I felt a lot of personal attention from this job applicant I had a lot of interest towards this person. NOT!
TIP:
If you’re going to send an unsolicited job application/inquiry to a company,
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take the time to identify a real person inside the company, and
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email that person directly.
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