Applying for web jobs?

At dots & lines we’ve been receiving a good number of CVs and a bigger number of e-mails directly applying for jobs that were not announced yet. While sending your CV to web agencies is a good action, how you send and communicate is what you have to think of before pressing the send button.

No portfolio link?

Do not send a resume that has no link to a portfolio of your past work. How useful is all the big talk about the skills and work you’ve done if you’ve got no link to show them off?

If you do not have a personal website or a portfolio to show off your work, you are likely to be taken as the “B” list candidates where you will be contacted for further details if the “A” list candidates were not good enough.

Get yourself a website! Isn’t all the work you’ve done in the past worth having a home to host them? Or isn’t your work good enough to have a website for? These are questions the vacancy holders would have in mind. So have a website!

Do not send “Forwards”

You are applying for a job and not sending a message to a colleage or a friend. Forwarding a message with all the forward headers looks ugly and inconsiderant. Show the importance and the value you see in the company that has the vacancy for you.

Speak the same language, business language

Do not relate your language, origin, or religion to the job you want to have, it’s a web job, so talk design, code, knowledge, and strictly business.

Show how important you are by your acheivements not by talking big and filling your CV with statistical jargons

If you have what it takes to lead or move a department forward show how you would do that, not only by saying you would!

I’ve worked in US and Canada thus I’m a big shot

No you are not!

Just be you

Be you, have an expressive CV and help the prospective employer to “wow” about how you really can help.

Know about who you’re applying to, dig into their background, after all you’re gonna’ be working with them for at least eight hours a day right? Although you might not know exactly how they work and who they are, you at least get an idea.

If you’re applying for job in a small agency know that the roles are almost always leadership and partnership in a bigger success so make sure you’re up to it.

Just don’t send to every “info”, “jobs”, “career”, “hr” email of whatever agency you find that has a website! Do your homework first.

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