Thang

• Went to community college out of highs school
• Different opportunities than being at a 4 year
• Sent lots of cold emails – overt 100
• First paragraph – catch the person’s attention
  • The persons inbox is probably going to be busy
  • State what you want right away and explain yourself
  • Kind of like a cover letter
• Address 3 things
  • Who you are: say that you are a student
    • You get a little more attention this way
  • Talk about what you’re studying and what you want to do
  • Talk about your fit for the internship
• Talk about experience
  • How your experience is related to the role that they want
  • Ex: web dev – talk about frontend projects
  • Soft skills are important too, but getting the job done is #1
• Employer might not read the whole thing
  • Talk about what’s relevant

Emily

• Cold emails and cover letters go hand in hand
• Try to personalize as much as possible
• Example: her letter to Riot Games
  • Emily talked about playing League of Legends
  • She signed the letter with her LoL in game name
  • They responded with an interview offer
• Companies don’t want to read the same thing over and over again
• Lots of people have skills, emails, cover letter
  • Try to stand out
• Why do you want to work for this company?
  • Good fit for their culture?
  • Can you do what they want you to carry out?
• Emily's housemate
  • Software engineer at Apple, previously interned at Apple
  • Wore Apple Watch and Apple t-shirt to interview
  • Talked about her Macs in her cover letter
  • Apple saw that and was impressed
  • Emphasized how much she loved Apple
• Adds oomph to get you past everyone else and differentiate you

Matei

• Personal anecdote in regard to emails
  • Has thousands of emails that he receives in his corporate email every day
  • The person you are emailing probably has a similar amount
  • Email has a connotation of verbosity and lots of content
  • People try to check emails as quickly as possible
• Make yourself stand out
  • Need to look interesting and attract attention
  • Differentiate from spam and other cold emails
  • Be concise, unique, have something that you bring to the table, don’t be like everyone else