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Employment / "To Whom It May Concern"

« on: Sep 01, 2013, 05:12 pm »

I am applying for a Production Assistant position at a large Festival with a lot of staff members. I have the name of the contact person, but this is the person that receives all the resumes for every position that they will hire for, and (I assume) will distribute to the specific people in charge of hiring.

I'm addressing my email to the contact person. However, I'm not sure who to address my cover letter to. I've been part of debates about this before, and never got a clear answer. Do you address it to the contact person, do you put "To Whom It May Concern", or do you address it to "Production Department"? What is your preference in either sending it out, and receiving. I know a lot of people are different, and there's no concrete answer, but I would like some perspective on it.

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The Green Room / Regrets

« on: Mar 05, 2013, 09:07 pm »

I was talking about this with a friend of mine, if there have been any jobs that you regret not applying for in that moment, yet you had reasons for not applying for in that moment.

There was a company in Canada that was doing a co-op with a theatre in Italy, it was an apprenticeship, the rehearsals were in Italy, and the shows opened there, then came to Canada. The company was going to pay for you to learn Italian for two weeks before the prep week started. Obviously they would house you and all that.

At the time, I had many small non important reasons not to apply. But now that it's passed, I definitely regret it, even though there's a good chance I wouldn't have gotten it, since it would've been my first apprenticeship, but I still regret not even trying.