Pretend for a second that you’re your an employer looking to hire someone for a job and a prospective job applicant sends you an email with a pic of crazy-eyed Nic Cage attached to it in place of a resume — what do you do?
You hire that person, obviously.
But sadly not everyone can spot a genius when one falls into their lap. Let’s just hope that whoever Vanessa Hojda was sending this to is a forward-thinking visionary and she gets the job she was applying for here, because she’s obviously got that hard-to-put-into-words “it” factor that so few people seem to have…
Don’t worry, Vanessa — things are going to work out just fine for you. I can feel it.
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I’m afraid that I’m going to do this EVERY DAMN TIME I apply for a job.
But, if it had to happen, at least it happened awesomely.
Sending the Nic Cage page is the least of her worries. That’s a shitty cover letter.
Course not, the cover letter is Nic Cage.
That wasn’t her cover letter. If you actually read the email it would say that her cover letter was attached.
Jennifer Lynn Prince — What’s shitty is that for some reason she wrote that email and attached the cover letter as a document. It’s beyond my comprehension why job seekers don’t paste their cover letters into the body of their emails. To me, it shows a lack of logical thinking and/or a disrespect for the hiring manager’s time. (And yes, I get a lot of applications like this.)
Also, I hate when job seekers ask for “some more information.” What information, specifically? The job seekers who ask concrete, well-constructed questions are the people I always end up hiring.
That said, I do love that Nic Cag jpg.
@nia618 I write a separate properly formatted cover letter. I think it shows a greater degree of professionalism than just cutting and pasting it into an email. My first contact is usually with the recruiter or HR person, who then will pass on the requested materials to those who actually make the decisions. The better those look, the better my chances. And, as someone who has made hiring decisions in the past, if someone just put everything in the body of an email, I probably wouldn’t take their candidacy too seriously. Maybe we’re just in different industries, but I fail to see how this could be “beyond your comprehension.”
@nia618 Whats even more shitty is how pathetically anal someone can be about “attaching a cover letter vs pasting it in the body”…as if 60 seconds of your time is that precious. But hey, whatever validates your executive ego.
Sincerely,
Self Employed
Caleb Gauge — I’m not an executive by any means! The thing is, 60 seconds of my time is nothing. But multiply that by 200 applications, and we’re talking the difference between having enough time to read everyone’s applications, and having to stop after the first hundred because I actually have a job to do.
If a job seeker includes the cover letter in the body of the email, I’m able to much more quickly gauge whether I want to continue. These things are a huge time suck, and anything an applicant can do to speed the process makes me appreciate them.
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Vanessa definitely needs to organize her documents better if her resume was in the same folder as that Nic Cage picture.
A genius? Really? More like a Bimbo, lets hope you have no position of authority.
FAKE. Come on, so the paparazzi was just waiting for her to send the email by hacking into her computer or something? This is just as fake as the iphone text message trolls. Use common sense people.
Um, what? She posted that picture from her email on her own personal Tumblr. No “paparazzi” took that picture. Maybe YOU should use common sense. And click the link in the article that leads to her Tumblr while you’re at it.
what are you talking about? haha your comment was the stupidest comment i have seen all day on anything….
WTF how can you people hate on this girl? Let’s see. Ridic pics of Nic Cage? Check. Sense of humor? Check. Yeah, I’m sure all of you are winners.
Bad idea to send your resume and cover in a zip file. More hassle for the recipient, doesn’t work on many mobile devices, makes the recipient worry there is malware in there. Your cover letter should be in the email – that’s a letter, see – the zip file says “this is a generic cover letter”. Cover letters should always be personalized. And just attach the resume.
Caleb Gauge — I’m not an executive by any means! The thing is, 60 seconds of my time is nothing. But multiply that by 200 applications, and we’re talking the difference between having enough time to read everyone’s applications, and having to stop after the first hundred because I actually have a job to do.
If a job seeker includes the cover letter in the body of the email, I’m able to much more quickly gauge whether I want to continue. These things are a huge time suck, and anything an applicant can do to speed the process makes me appreciate them.
and use Comic Sans font. Nice punctuation idiot!! And don’t say ‘if you could give me more information’ say ‘ plz gimmie more information, like Britney say in her song Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie some more, that would be appreciated, I need infoz, 411 pls’ They would be quite impressed with your extensive knowledge of such lyrical artistry. ‘With love, Vanessa, YOLO’
Update: Vanessa was hired as the person who attaches the flags to the players’ names on the big screen at the olympics football in London: [www.bbc.co.uk]
She’s shit at sending the correct documents so lets hope it was a job at Target.