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I'm basically going to repeat advice given to me as I don't have much experience myself, but it might help anyway.
Your email should be short and simply referring to two attwchments: cv and cover letter (or motivatiebrief)
Cv is short and to the point, show what you know (including ssh, but succinctly), what you have done and any examples you can give. Also mention soft skills
Cover letter is where you get to emotional territory and explain why you want the job and why they should hire you, more elaborate descriptions of soft skills should go here. Possibly talk about how good of a fit you'll be for the company, for example work ethic or work culture etc. Show excitement for the job and try to convince the reader to look at your cv. Don't make it a book though -
@Root The email was my cover letter! I ended it with an ending covering their last point - challenges. I pointed out to them:
"This is what I'm looking for in a job! Especially considering the fact that I suspect that after 20-30 servers, there's probably gonna be a last wall for the home lab - which servers can I still build? And what challenges would there be laying further in managing hundreds of servers, for clients? An acquaintance of mine told me that he maintains ~500 servers, and another one at Digital Ocean told me that she maintains about 19.200. This is so cool! I really wonder which engineering challenges this would present." -
@Condor very well written!
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I was told that a CV should list all your qualifications and the covering letter explains how the stuff in your CV makes you the ideal candidate for that particular job.
In the email it’s enough to say that you’re applying to this and that, and they should refer to the attachments for further details. -
As with other skills I don't have, I learn before doing. When I was job hunting for the first time, I had no idea how cvs and cover letters work. Cover letter wiki lists one book in further reading section. I read that and resume book from same series. I would recommend them, or any other that cover simmilar topic. It's stuff you read once and use regularly after that.
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@Root ballsy. I like it.
Bit of an odd question maybe, but when sending out your CV to a company over email, what would you expect to be written / write in the email itself?
I've got a sysadmin position that I'd really like to apply to, and it seems like I'm ticking all the boxes, however some of the things like SSH authentication (I mean it's fairly basic, isn't it) I haven't mentioned on the CV at all because I feel it's to be assumed. But I'd like to mention it in the email itself along with motivation. Apparently there's this thing called a "motivation letter"? How does that work?
Point is, I could go on all day about these services they ask about and how they already exist in my home lab, but I'm not entirely sure whether I should just keep it brief and just say "here's my CV and there's my number", or go a bit in-depth about it in the mail. Perhaps something in between?
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