Applying for jobs in the early hours of the morning

Antifa161

As in, sending your application email between say, 1am and 5am.

Is this noticed or judged in any way by employers? It seems like the sort of absolutely ridiculous thing that might be.

In fairness, if I received a formal email around those times I would probably notice it and think it a bit out of the ordinary, but that would be the height of it.

Corkbah

most employers don't really notice … for all they know your email server might be based in USA and its the time sent over there and not over here.

what it does do though is it put your email closer to the top when the person gets into work (I'm sure they receive a flurry from 7am onwards)

Blue Whale

Antifa161 wrote: »

As in, sending your application email between say, 1am and 5am.

Is this noticed or judged in any way by employers? It seems like the sort of absolutely ridiculous thing that might be.

In fairness, if I received a formal email around those times I would probably notice it and think it a bit out of the ordinary, but that would be the height of it.

You can delay the sending of the email. (If you haven't used an email client like outlook you should try it-very useful)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-ie/outlook-help/delay-or-schedule-sending-email-messages-HP010355051.aspx

Although.. this doesn't help when you send the application through employers/recruiter's online application system

theyearof2010

I think this is an important factor to consider.

If I was an employer I would be more impressed receiving an application at 8/9am rather than 3am. It might say more about your motivation and organisation.

Another idea would be to prepare the emails from 1-5am, set the clock for 8/9am, click send and then back to bed ha!

Chattastrophe!

If the person was currently in a job, I'd rather see an application coming in from them outside of working hours!!

As regards receiving an application at 3am ... it depends. If it was a perfectly good, well thought out, tailored application, that the person had clearly put time and effort into, the fact that it was sent in the middle of the night would in no way put me off. However, a lazy application riddled with typos sent at that time would make me wonder if the person was drunk when applying!

Fittle

In my previous job, I received many applications for positions at all hours of the day and night. It had absolutely NO impact on the application whatsoever. Sometimes, I assumed it was an issue with my server when I would see an email coming in at 2am - but I thought that for a split second, and never considered it again.

Any employer who takes the time the email is sent into consideration, has way too much time of their hands.

youcancallmeal

I think the only time it might matter is if it is a small company and only a handful of people have applied for a role. I would imagine in this case the person hiring has a lot more time on their hands and can consider every little detail if they like?

When it comes to big companies I can tell you from experience when they are receiving hundreds of CVs a day they couldn't care less what time you sent it in! CVs will be looked at in an almost detached perfunctory manner, i.e. does this candidate have x years experience, knowledge of the system we use etc