"To whom it may concern"

Sabre0001

Have completed my final year and I am currently applying for jobs - not going for most of the traditional "graduate" jobs though so it's a little more difficult. My question is, if you don't know the name of the person you are sending the e-mail to, what do you put down?

I have tried a variety of ways to make sure I am sending the e-mail to the right person but I don't want to offend and I don't want to make it seem like I am bulk sending e-mails (as I am putting effort into them and am really interested in some of the jobs / really interested if I could force myself in when there is no position advertised )

Thanks all

Tabnabs

I always put 'Dear Sirs'. Even with the male gender bias, blah, blah, it's a formal and established way to get it right.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

I used to put "Dear Sir or Madam". Now I always make a point of finding out the name of the person. You can usually find it out by googling their email address, or just ring the company and ask who it should be addressed to.

I think companies like the fact that you went to a bit of effort to find out who to address the letter to.

snellers

I agree with roundtower however sometimes job adverts clearly state you send in letter or e-mail to 'HR' and they do not want telephone correspondence. It's not always possible to find out who you sending it to (e.g. hr@company.ie

For speculative employment, however, I would always find out who the head of the department is that I would like to work for and address personally to them - 9 times out of 10 you can get that info from reception when you call them.

Sabre0001

snellers wrote: »

I agree with roundtower however sometimes job adverts clearly state you send in letter or e-mail to 'HR' and they do not want telephone correspondence. It's not always possible to find out who you sending it to (e.g. hr@company.ie

For jobs where an e-mail to a generic e-mail address is required (such as hr@ or sales@) what would you recommend?

Sabre0001

I'm going to hijack my own thread here rather than open another (still open to other opinions on the above question too)

I have been trying to apply for a job with a company that is listed as being in Korea (contact details, etc are also Korean) but does work elsewhere. However, the form for applying crashes (even more helpful, it's IN Korean - thank you dictionary.com) and the form for other enquiries also crashes. I do not know how to contact this company - should I keep trying the form another day? A last resort would be to ring the company but this would be very costly (and may be confusing if they don't answer in English :S). Any ideas?

Thanks!

Gone West

dodgy korean company where all their www forms crash...
Its probably run by a 14 year old korean kid with no employees.

Would you want to work for them?

Sabre0001

FuzzyLogic wrote: »

dodgy korean company where all their www forms crash...
Its probably run by a 14 year old korean kid with no employees.

Would you want to work for them?

Nah, it's a video game exhibit event organiser. Has been running a few years (since 2000). It's in an industry that I really want to get in to and sounds like it could be really interesting.

The forms crashing (and a lack of explicit e-mail address) is quite bothersome though. There is a postal address but God only knows how long that could take (and difficult to follow up // time the follow up)