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Send This Email to the Company You Want to Work For
Send This Email to the Company You Want to Work For
This email is a magic bullet. It follows a very specific format and will get you a meeting that will lead to your new job. The catch is, you need to know the right things to say in this email for it to work, which takes a lot of effort.
Consider this a roadmap. If you do the work necessary to write this email from an authentic place you will get a meeting and a job.
This email works because companies today get hundreds of resumes full of real skills, but no mission; they get job applicants bursting with mission, but no skills. This email will prove that you have both. Here are the four necessary paragraphs to include for this email to work:
- Prove three ways that you have a real skill. Companies need people with real skills. There is no job description that says “Do Good”. Companies need lawyers, accountants, project managers, and designers. What is your skill? If you don’t have one, develop one. “Leadership” or “Willingness to learn” doesn’t count. Start by doing these exercises so you can write this paragraph with confidence: Make a List of your Skills, Make a List of What you Want to Learn and Take a Course Outside of School
- Prove three ways that you are mission-aligned. You must prove that you are committed to the mission of the company in three different ways. Whether it is by extensive interviews you have done with leaders in the field, your moment of obligation when you realized you had to do this work, or the volunteer experience that you did five years ago. You need to prove that you are mission-aligned and that means much more than a one-liner at the top of a Word resume template. Here is how you Prove You are Mission-Aligned
- Say that you were going to do it yourself, but can create a deeper impact by working with their company. Tell then that you have been thinking, researching and wanting to start something to reinvent industry x in a way that does good. Tell them that when you found their company you realized how much more you could do if you partnered, worked for, or worked together with them. Tell them you would like to meet with them and discuss this.
- Request to talk, get advice, and learn about how you can work together. Close it off with a simple request. Always look for advice and ways to partner as though you are already doing this work. In the meeting itself, all you need to do is iterate the ways that you have mission-alignment and employable skills, and tell them that you want to find a role within their company where you can put all of this into action and bring them incredible value. It is so rare that someone has the clarity and proof it takes to write this email that you are guaranteed to get a meeting.
Disclaimer: This email takes a tremendous amount of work to ensure that it is authentic and effective. You have to commit to building and strengthening real skills and to becoming mission-aligned so that it is impossible to fake it. If you are short on either mission or skills, this is what you should focus on developing and strengthening in the meantime. Continue writing emails, meeting with companies, and building your network. Above all, trust that all your hard work will lead you to that perfect job.
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