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Mar172011

How To Apply For A Job (Episode 25 of 37 Signals Podcast: Hiring)

DateThursday, March 17, 2011 at 2:18PM

One of the best podcast discussions of how an excellent and ground-breaking company hires. A must listen for every job applicant, college student or parent thereof. Highlights:

  • Applicants: write a cover letter that flatters the company you are applying to.
    • actually know something about the company by, say, reading about them!
    • demonstrate you actually know it in the body of the letter
  • Applicants: If there are instructions as to how to format application or, simply, apply, READ THEM!
  • Applicants: Spell correctly (at minimum). Write well or you don't stand a chance.
  • Applicants: As difficult as this seems, imagine being your prospective employer, then be the person they are looking for.
  • Designers: Make sure all the content you have produced paints coherent picture of who you are.
  • Companies: when hiring outside of your comfort zone, be prepared. It can be simply hard, depressing work.
  • Companies: ask applicants what they did yesterday at their current jobs. Amazing what you'll learn by the way they describe day, activities or mission

Available at iTunes Store.

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