Tips For Tomorrow, Following up a Job Application... Options

[Coomer]

Over the weekend I found what looks to be a great job for me. The job is to maintain and design a company's website and assist in the design documents for print and such. The company is a resort company located a little over an hour out of Yakima, so I'd be out of Yakima and 15 minutes away from the college that I plan to attend next year. There's a possibility that I might even get a place to stay at the resort since it mentions that relocation packages are available.

Anyway, I meet the minimum requirements for the job. The ad says that they'd prefer a bachelor's degree, but that at least three years of equivalent experience(which I have) would also work. I have a feeling that if I could convince them to have a look at my portfolio and interview me, that they'd be impressed and might offer me the job.

So anyway, yesterday I submitted my application online(I couldn't do it in person...online was all that was available.) In my cover letter to my resume, I commented that I would follow up within a couple days to answer any preliminary questions they may have.

So tomorrow,
I'm going to visit the resort and I think I'll ask if I can talk to the personel director. Once I do this, I plan to introduce myself, say that I applied online, and ask if they recieved my application and if there's anything else that they would like me to do. I plan to close up the conversation by letting them know that if there's anything they need, they can feel free to get a hold of me, and then I'll hand them one of my business cards.

I've got a nice dress shirt and nice Doc Martens shoes, and tonight I got some nice slacks and a nice belt, so I'll dress up for tomorrow. Any suggestions or tips for me before I go talk to them tomorrow?

[creis]

Good Luck.

always keep a tap on what you say about yourself, you dont wana come off to strong, or appear to be bragging, just keep it cool and dont over anser there questions, its always good to come up with some really good questions about the company, on the first real interview, no mention of money benafits etc. a good example would be.

Do you feel that the majoritly of the staff here at "company name" are satisfied with there jobs?

obviously there gana say yes, but it lets them know that your seeking a good job rather then just a job, and could even hint that your looking for the job best sueted for you, and upper management is always thinking about job placement, and finding people best fit for the job (your both looking for the same thing with is a great thing to have in common)

if they have a current website, prepare some examples (be prepared) or upgrades to it, or ideas that could put you above the others, bring both print outs of the site (printer friendly no cutoff/split pages) and a disk for them to keep, its basicly a offering of your skill and allowes them to get a much better review of your abilities, witch means that they spend more time on your reivew then others, witch keeps your name in there head longer. and dont fancy it up to much, make it all look nice, down to the disk/cd lable and case but dont go overboard. ( I recomend a clear case if you got a cd, however I would recommend a floppy, because when it comes to web hosting, size is a huge factor, if you can make everything fit on a floppy, there gana notice (if they know anything about web hosting) plus make it easy for them to look at, there not gana wast 10 sec tring to find what they wana see, heck if you can make an autoplay, and have it show everything on its own then your far better off, plus you dont wana let them poke around your script, they might find little insegnificant erros (every one makes errors) that can make you look bad.

Hope that helps, and good luck again.

~ creis (king of the 60 sec/hire on the spot interview)