May 16th, 2011
To Whom It May Concern:
I am re-sending the following letter, which I originally sent on February 11th, 2011, in the hopes that I might receive a response.
For my birthday in January this year, my sister bought me the "GOYISH vs. JEWISH" desk calendar that your company, Andrews McMeel publishes. I have been enjoying it tremendously. However, today when I flipped the calendar page to the current date (February 5th), I discovered a typo! The sentence reads, "You new house? Lovely...just lovely." Instead of, of course, "YOUR new house?..." I have my MFA in Creative Writing and currently work as a freelance copyeditor and copywriter, among other things. (I am also a poet, visual artist and Teaching Artist in New York City). I have decided to write you this letter, with plenty of humor, but in all earnestness, to request that you consider me for an editing position (or any other position for which you feel I may be well suited) at your company, Andrews McMeel. I am willing to relocate. I have attached my resume and CV to this email for your consideration. I leave you with this:
GOYISH: Not finding a typo.
JEWISH: Finding a typo and then writing the publishing company to alert them of the typo and to ask that you be considered for an editing position.
(No offense to the Goyish, just making a joke in the style of the calendar...)
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this letter and for your consideration. I look forward to hearing back from you.
Sincerely,
_______________
^------ (I didn't include my name on this blog post, but obviously did so in my letter... I'm protecting my identity on this blog so that potential employers won't find this blog, know who wrote it, and be put off...lol...)
^------ (I didn't include my name on this blog post, but obviously did so in my letter... I'm protecting my identity on this blog so that potential employers won't find this blog, know who wrote it, and be put off...lol...)
(I only put the letter in bold for the sake of the blog). So... Again, I really didn't expect to hear back, but I hoped. I did hope. Well... This morning, when I checked my email for the first time of the day, there was an email in my inbox that, judging by the strangeness of the subject header (RE: W-0511-AE >), seemed like spam. I opened it because who knows anymore, and I had a gut feeling it wasn't spam. It wasn't. It was the following letter from Andrews McMeel(!):
Dear __(me)___,
Thank you for submitting your resume in response to our posting for an Assistant Editor.
Your resume will be reviewed by Human Resources and if your qualifications and background meet our requirements for this position, we will respond to you within 10 to 15 business days.
If you do not hear from us within 15 days, we will keep your resume in our database for the next 12 months in the event we have an opening that matches your qualifications.
We appreciate your interest in Andrews McMeel Universal as a potential employer. We wish you the best in your career search.
Human Resources
Andrews McMeel Universal
Ha! Apparently, unbeknown to me, Andrews McMeel is currently advertising for the position of Assistant Editor! I had no knowledge of this whatsoever. But apparently my new letter must have gotten put into the batch of other applicant letters writing to apply for this position! And according to this letter (I'm going to go ahead and trust it, even though, obviously, you never know) my resume is going to be reviewed for consideration for this position and I will either hear back within 10-15 days, or I won't. How totally awesome would it be if because of this second attempt at writing to them, and unknowingly submitting my resume for an actual advertised position I knew nothing about, I actually got a serious response! Here's hoping!
