It’s time for another installment in this series of little oversights that get your cover letter email sent directly to the trash folder. By the way, though some of these mistakes seem obvious, I have seen all of them as I continue to recruit for our open Director of Education position. That means that there is a true need for this type of advice.
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Today’s “little thing” is choosing which email account from which to send your cover letter. Think that using your “highly respected” employer’s email address will somehow give you credibility?
Think again!
When employers receive cover letters and resumes from other employer’s email addresses – in contrast to a personal account such as Yahoo or Gmail – the employer will have many questions about you, none of them good:
- Will this person use my company’s resources for his/her personal gain?
- Does this person care about how s/he is perceived?
- Is this person even smart enough to know how to do something simple like set up a personal email account?
- Does this person think nothing of “sneaking around” on company time?
- How loyal of an employee would this person be?
Pretty simple.
In case you missed earlier parts of this series, you can find them here, here, and here.
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