Lazy bastard students
Forgive the headline. I just wanted to be sure I got your attention.
It’s graduation season when, as the doors open and hats settle, us employers are treated to an onslaught of applicants seeking out “opportunities”.
Most of your applications take the same form: an email expressing hope for any opportunity and urging the reading of the attached covering letter, cv and portfolio.
Your letters are earnest and hopeful.
Lazy bastard students.
I don’t want earnest and hopeful. I don’t want a covering email telling me to read a covering letter. I don’t really want your CV but if you do send it then design it to have impact. Your one brief in this is to sell yourself. From email to portfolio. Sell sell sell.
Why?
Because I want to notice you.
I want you to show me you can think up the sort of concepts I have to sell to clients.
I want to see what you might be capable of.
Why?
Because I’m a lazy bastard employer.
http://nothired.com/2010/03/05/397/
Tips ahoy!
2:30 pm you say?
High time I had some noodles and went back to bed. Looks like it might rain.