Seriously, you would not believe how much freaking spam was waiting for me on here. It was ridiculous.
Speaking of other forms of internet communication, let’s talk about email. Specifically, about emails you send to try and get a job. There are a few things we’ve seen at the office recently that seem like they should be obvious, but apparently need to be repeated.
1. When sending an email, spell your name correctly in the subject line. I felt bad for this guy–he did everything else pretty right, but obviously was at the point where he’d typed the same thing so many times it didn’t look like a real word anymore. He had spelled his name one way in his resume and the body of the email, but it was spelled wrong in the subject. Typing fatigue for sure.
2. When sending an email, try to spell things correctly. People in the industry do often have notoriously bad spelling, but when you’re applying you should make it as easy as possible for the person reading your email to understand it. When we have to puzzle out spellings of words it doesn’t endear you to us.
3. Don’t send out mass-emails. Yes, you’re applying to a lot of places. We understand that. But for the love of corndogs, don’t leave fifty emails in the “to” line on your application. We can see those. When the “to” field of the email is longer than the email itself, it’s unprofessional. It also makes us laugh a lot. Do yourself a favor. Email all those companies separately, and try to tailor your cover letter to each company. It will make you look much more professional and appealing.
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In completely different news, I wrote my very first knitting pattern and published it online! It’s for socks. For all four of you people who read this and like knitting, here is the pattern.
If you do knit it, please let me know! I’d be excited to see it.
Also, here is some eye candy of yarn I dyed myself.
Purple hand-dyed yarn.
It was a lot of fun to do!
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