Sample Job Letter

XYZ Company 87 Delaware Road Hatfield, CA 08065 (909) 555-5555 george.gillhooley@email.com Date Dear Mr. Gilhooley, I am writing to apply for the programmer position advertised in the Times Union. As requested, I am enclosing a completed job application, my certification, my resume and three references. The opportunity presented in this listing is very interesting, and I believe that my strong technical experience and education will make me a very competitive candidate for this position. The key strengths that I possess for success in this position include: I have successfully designed, developed, and supported live use applications I strive for continued excellence I provide exceptional contributions to customer service for all customers With a BS degree in Computer Programming, I have a full understanding of the full life cycle of a software development project. I also have experience in learning and excelling at new technologies as needed. Please see my resume for additional information on my experience. I can be reached anytime via email at george.gillhooley@email.com or my cell phone, 909-555-5555. Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to speaking with you about this employment opportunity. Sincerely, FirstName LastName __________

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I am a final year student and wish to join your esteemed organization. Please consider my CV attached with this email.

Job application in JP Cement, for openings in your organization. I am Ravi Shankar Tripathi, fresher, MIT School of Business, Pune.

Job applications ! I can tell from my own experience that it s quite exciting when you send an email for job in some company. You would keep checking your inbox after short intervals expecting a reply to your application. One day, 2 days, 3 days and you do not get a reply. You feel sad and try again in some other company. The same thing happens there and keep happening to you while your friends are getting placed. You have no clue as to what is wrong. You keep trying and no success. Once some experienced person told me the definition of insanity Doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results ! . What you need to understand is that there lies some problem and you have to correct it to get better results. And majority of the times the problem is either with your CV or with your way to apply for the job. If any one of these are not appealing, you would miss a chance. I already wrote a post on how to prepare a CV. You can refer to that post here.In this post we will focus on writing an email for a job application. My experience I have over 4 years of experience which include software development at various levels, handling recruitment s for the company i was working with, setting up and running my own company for almost 2 years now. I have been interviewing people for almost 3 years now and counseling students regarding career and various other things. In total i have interviewed over 100+ candidates both experienced people with 1-7 years of experience and freshers. I owned an employers account from monster and posted jobs on monster for recruitments in my company. Once we posted a job on a job portal and checked the auto CV search on ( monster would automatically search CV s matching the job profile and email them to the job poster ) , we would get 1200+ emails in our inbox every day on an average !! What do you think we did with those 1200 CV s ?? We shift deleted them !! Strange, but that s true. We wont be calling 1200 candidates everyday and interviewing them. We searched all the emails for some specific words and deleted all the emails which contained those words. Now in such a scenario if you want you CV to be noticed it will have to stand out. The subject of you email, what you write in your email, the name of the word / pdf file you attach with your email, your email writing style etc all should be taken care of for getting a positive reply to your job application. I shall talk about general professional email writing tips in some other post, in this one i would provide you some tips and sample content on writing an email for a job application. A few things you need to take care of Your email subject The subject of your email should clearly specify who you are, your qualification and your skill set. In case you are applying for some specific job opening and you have the job code,

you should mention that in the email subject itself so that the person receiving your email can put it into the correct folder and then refer to it later. You CV file name Please note that the name of the CV word / pdf file you attach with your email should be named such that the person receiving it can get all the required information with even having to open you CV and reading it. Please do not name your CV files as MyCV.docs, SampleCV.docx, YourNameCV.docx etc. Be polite and humble in your writing style Always remember that when you apply for a job, its extremely important to be polite and humble in your writing style. The person reading your email should feel that you have requested him rather than feeling that you have ordered him. There are a few common email contents i would like to share here and request that you people should never ever use them: I am sending my CV for any job opening in your company. Please find attached my CV. Please find attached my CV with this email. I will be thankful to you for considering it for any job opening. I hereby attach my CV with this email. I am XYZ and sending you my CV. Please take a look. I am a final year student and wish to join your esteemed organization. Please consider my CV attached with this email. Please find attached my CV. Sending CV. Please take a look. The above contents are suicidal. They are not the best way you can send a job application. As far as i am concerned, i would take no time in deleting any email sent to me with these contents. Sample email contents Here are a few sample email contents you can use while sending a job application email: Suppose you are sending your CV to Mr. Alok in some company. Below is one among many decent ways to write an email to him for a job opening in his company. Please remember that you email has to be very humble. Subject : Job application for asp.net, c#, javascript openings in your organization.I am Ravinder Singh, fresher, Thapar University Patiala. Alok, I am Ravinder Singh, pursuing B.E computer science and engineering from Thapar University Patiala. I wish to apply for any job openings in your esteemed organization that would match my education profile. I shall graduate out of college at the end of June 2010. I am proficient in asp.net, c#,

javascript and HTML. Please review my CV attached with this email at your convenience. For any further communication you may please call me at +91-9888175447. Regards, Ravinder Singh. Suppose you are applying for a job opening you saw on a job site or in a paper. You can use the following sample content for such an application: Subject : Application for job code 12345. I am Ravinder Singh, fresher, Thapar University Patiala. Respected Sir, In response to the job opening posted by your company on _______________ with job code 12345 i wish to submit my CV for your consideration. After going through the details of the qualification demanded i was confident that i am a suitable candidate for this job. Please review my CV attached with this email at your convenience. For any further communication you may please call me at +919888175447. Regards, Ravinder Singh. The above contents should give you an idea on what to write in the email that you send as a job application. Please understand that we need to give our best shot when it comes to our career. Paying attention to these small things can help us gain a lot.

Job interview tips

November 13th, 2011 | 3 Comments | Posted in Career Related by admin

Alright, now that you are reading this article, it means you are about to appear for some interview definitely !! Obviously you wont read this article just for fun . There is always a bit of nervousness before you appear for some interview, but just dont worry, its all natural. We all are humans, and being nervous is never a bad thing. It keeps you mentally alert, you stay focused on your task and make extra efforts for winning. So being nervous is good in a way. Lets now just focus on giving you some real helpful tips on preparing for your interview. These are not just tips, these are from my personal interviewing experience. I have conducted over 100+ interviews till date and have learnt quite many things which will be helpful to you when you will appear for your interview.

Lets be practical
I shall keep my article very much practical. Lets not try and give you some feel good factor that O dont worry, everything will be fine. You will do good, you will succeed for sure.. Well you wont, if you dont make sincere efforts to succeed. You need to understand one important thing, which will help you perform your best during any interview you appear for Success cannot be guaranteed, it can only be attained. All that you can do is give your best shot sincerely and leave the rest to nature. Let the nature decide whether you fit in for the job you are appearing for or not.

First thing first

The very first thing to understand is, are you seriously interested in the job you are appearing for ? Does it matter a lot to you, will you be hurt a lot if you are not able to clear the interview. If the answer to these questions is no, then definitely you will not be giving your best shot. If you enter the interview room half hearted, trust me you will fail. This is because the interviewer will come to know after a very brief conversation with you that you are not 100% interested in this job. And no one would like to appoint an employee who is not serious enough for his / her job. So the first thing is that you prepare yourself for the interview in a way that this is the last interview of your life and you have to, have to succeed. This feeling will give you mental strength to focus on each and every small thing that might matter there during interview time.

Dress up for the occasion

Now how to dress. What to wear and what not to wear. Please dont expect that i will tell you wear formals for the interview, you should look like a typical corporate person etc. All i would tell you is, dress for the occasion. By this i mean that you should understand the job profile that you will be offered if you clear the interview. You need to dress up in a way that you justify it to the interviewer that he wont be making a mistake by appointing you for that position. Now if the job post demands you to have a casual look, be smartly dress and look fresh whole day ( say you have a PRO job where you will have to meet people whole day ) and you wear a serious suit on the interview day, the interviewer will not be able to visualize you in the role that he is sitting there to offer you. So just wear something that helps the interviewer visualize you in the job role and can help him judge your potential in that role appropriately. Now if you are appearing for some intellectual job, like some technical job or some finance job, your outer appearance should do the talking for you. You should dress up in a way which shows that you are not some confused personality, you are not someone who is messed up inside his mind. Dress up in a very clean and soothing manner which should tell the other person who you are. If you are appearing for some software job, your appearance should be like that of a

software engineer. If you are appearing for a financial advisor job, your appearance should be like that of a financial advisor. A small tip to help you decide how to dress Dress the way you want people to see you. If you want people to consider you a successful person, dress like a successful person. If you want people to consider you a responsible person, a dependable person, dress like one. You outer appearance speaks a hell lot about who you are.

Arrange your documents properly

You have spent your whole life earning the documents you will be carrying with you in the interview room. If you have worked so hard to earn those documents, you can put in some thought and effort in arranging them properly so that the interviewer gets a pretty good idea about your skill set. Arrange the documents in a way that they should depict your strength, not your weakness. Lets say you were never good at academics, but you were always good at sports. Being good at sports speaks a lot about you. You cannot be a good sportsperson if you are not hardworking and dedicated, if you are not regular for your game, if you are not passionate, if you are not a good team player, if you are not intelligent as no game can be played without having a reasonable amount of intelligence. So if you are a good sportsperson, project that to the interviewer by arranging your sports documents on the top and your academic documents at the bottom. Let the interviewer look at your strengths first.

Do some study about the company and your job profile

Think about it this way, if you have a job at hand and you have 5 friends between whom you have to choose the best for that job, how will you choose. You will definitely consider the friend which you know is reliable, trustworthy of completing the job. When the interviewer interviews many candidates he wants to find the best one possible for the job. Now for that he might ask you a few questions like Why do you want to join our company, or If we select you for the job, how will you perform the XYZ task. What they want to know basically is that do you really understand what you are supposed to do, or you just read about the job vacancy and just showed up. Remember majority of the candidates wont do any research on the job they are appearing for. Your smartness at this end will help you in impressing the interviewer by your prompt reply to these questions which are quite likely to be asked to you.

Be a good listener
Talk less and to the point, dont just change the track of the conversation by your directionless talking and waste time during the interview. The best way to do less talking and keeping the conversation on track, atleast from your side, is by being a good listener. By acting as a good listener you will be benefiting in a lot many ways, you will understand the question properly, you will understand the expectations of the interviewer properly, you will understand the context of the question being asked properly and can then frame your answer accordingly. Therefore by being a good listener you can impress the interviewer with your smart answers and to the point conversation skills.

In the end, prepare your subjects properly

What matters the most in the interview is that how you are with your subjects. If you feel that you are weak in your subjects, focus the most on it rather than doing other preparations. If you fail to answer the set of most important questions which are asked from your own subjects, you end up killing the whole chance of clearing the interview. You should be confident with your subjects, if not thorough. The answers you provide should be correct and the ones you dont know just leave

them. It should be all in black and white. You answer what you know and you just leave what you dont know. Dont try to make things gray by trying to answer every question. That would go negative for you, as the interviewer will feel that you are trying too hard to answer when you dont know the answer. So its better to say im sorry, i have no clue for this question !

This is not all

There are many things which matter during the interview time. I have only mentioned a few in this article. Will talk about other things in coming articles on this same topic. Till then, thanks for reading and all the very best for your interview. Let me know by your comments to this post if you got your dream job, i shall be happy to be a part of your happiness