People don't care about you

[Laurent Brouat]

ON a regular basis, I receive this kind of emails :

“Dear Laurent,

I am an engineering graduate in the area of Electronics & Communications and is looking forward to start my career.

I am looking for a position leading to further enhancement of my knowledge and skills.
Should you require any further information, please feel free to contact me.

Warm regards,
Tar***”

This is the kind of email I call “unsolicited and annoying” emails.

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This person sent me an email without even knowing exactly what I am doing (I am a career consultant and not a recruiter) asking me for a job.

Why do you think I would help this person?

There are no reasons for me to help this person, I don’t know her, never heard of her, no relationships in common…

And if you look at the email in details, this person did not take the time to really read my profile and craft an adapted email…nothing like that…asking for a job because I have a blog talking about job and career.

It is just a waste of time for her sending me this kind of emails…and even worse, next time I will come across her profile, I will have a bad image about her.

Every day people send unsolicited emails asking for jobs to people they don’t even know. Instead of wasting your time and the time of unknown people, you should send relevant, anticipated and personal emails.

Relevant: related to what the person is doing showing that you read and understood her profile

Personal: talking about her, explaining why you are contacting her.

Anticipated: and you can’t ask too much, you need to ask something small to start with

If I receive an email from someone I know or from someone’s else contact, I will answer.

If I receive an email explaining why I should answer with a personal message, I will answer.

If I receive an email, asking me for a job, I won’t answer.

And you, do you send emails asking for jobs?

Do you waste people’s time?

It is time to rethink your way of looking for a job and using referrals to contact people. A proper networking process is needed.

Why wasting your time and annoying people with unsolicited emails instead of preparing a networking approach?

At the end of the day, people don’t care about you.

[Barry Deutsch]

Laurent,

Sending unsolicited emails to 3rd level contacts and strangers is like a salesperson making cold calls.

It's silly, a major time waster, and it's totally ineffective. One warm job search lead is worth 100s of cold calls or unsolicited emails.

However, this means you've got to have an excellent network that will help you generate an abundance of job search leads and referrals. Most candidates have a terrible and ineffective network. Sending emails into your ineffective network is also a waste of time. For many candidates, the contacts in their network will NEVER be able to generate a job lead or referral.

Focus on the network development first, and the leads and referrals will automatically start to flow.

Barry Deutsch
Partner
IMPACT Hiring Solutions
http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com
http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com/careerblog

[Greg Lachs]

This is a good point. In my recruiting days, I was bombarded with people who just wanted to get resumes "out there." Frankly, a number of those resumes were truly "out there!" Effective and focused saturation has promise, but sending your resume out like it's spam does no one any good!