5 Tips You Absolutely Must Remember When It Comes To Your Job Hunt Emails

I know you’ve read a story or a blog post here and there that mention the top 800 tips for seeking job interviews and chances are a good number of those have to do with presenting your professionalism and your social circles and your resume, your cover letter, your phone calls and your emails.

Handle the emails professionally.

Well, sometimes there is just not enough information when it comes to communicating how important professionalism in emails is for your career search. 5 things you absolutely must remember during your job hunt related to emails are here for you to digest and incorporate into your search. Let’s jump right into this shall we?

Tip #1) Have A Good Address

Yes I know cuteperson@aol.com was probably funny back in the late 90s but Gmail is free and it is pretty easy to just go sign up for your first two initials and last name maybe 01 @gmail.com and be done with it.

Use that only for jobs and now you’ve gone and completely filtered that thing, that if things go completely bad, you can drop it all together. Either way it looks absolutely professional and completely dedicated to your job hunt task. And no one else has it.

Tip #2) Change Your Signature

Check what you have now because if you still have maybe a project of a funny quote or a highly charged political or religious statement, these are thing that are perfectly fine to communicate with other people, but has no place in your job hunt.

Sure you will be able to have a personality wherever you work, but when it comes to getting pass the filters of getting an interview and moving on to the next job, you really don’t want any X marks on the path. This also includes using free email services.

Some of them will attach advertisements into the email and sometimes you probably do not want to communicate that. So double check what you are using. Like I said, Gmail is free.

Tip #3) Professional Words Only!

No one cares about ‘lulz,’ the latest memes, or using words without vowels. This has absolutely no place in your emails. We are talking about you are doing the Dear, Hello Whatever. You’re doing the salutations, you’re doing the thank you very much for your time and interest seeking me out as a candidate.

I would love to talk to you at your earliest convenience. Here’s my number… Sincerely … or kind regards. I mean we are talking about full deal professionalism. There is no room for error here. You can be friendly once you have got the job. Okay? Be friendly but be professional first.

Tip #4) Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

If you have an attitude or you are not well versed in the ability to communicate professionally, maybe you need to get someone to check your emails first before you send them. This is perfectly fine. I am sure a friend would not mind helping you out on an interview or an email to an interviewer to help you move on to the next level.

Now granted most of the time jobs are going to require effective communication and you want to have the ability to do that in an email in order to prove that you can communicate effectively in anything else. But sometimes we just need help and that is perfectly fine. Get it.

Tip #5) Save A Draft And Return

If you have ever had the feeling of oh my goodness, did I forget to attach something? Or did I say something that I should not have said? Or did I really interpret that properly? Then, you probably did not wait long enough.

Sometimes it’s okay to after an interview or after any type of job hunt event to start the email and then just save it for the next day or a couple hours later when you have more time to digest what is going on. Usually the first response is emotional and that is not a great idea. Save it, come back to it a little bit later. You will be fresh and ready to answer logically and effectively to those that matter for your next career.

Form Your Emails Properly

The most important things you need to remember when it comes to emails during a job hunt or any type of professional endeavor is something that is going to be completely important in no matter what you do. The five tips you just learned right here.

About having a good address, changing your signature, using professional words only, checking yourself, saving a draft and returning are keys towards growing your ability to do this right.

You’re interviewer, your friends, and your future will thank you for taking these things into consideration the next time you communicate via email to anyone that has anything to do with your career development. I hope this has helped you. And that you have good luck straightening out your endeavors.