Sign up here to get top career advice delivered straight to your inbox every week. Subscribe To The Forbes Careers Newsletter It was a big honor, and also a reminder that I’m ready for my next challenge, hopefully as the Sales Manager at Dolby. In the meantime, I wanted to share that I finished this month as the #1 sales rep in the New York market. Or, if your work or goals can be quantified-you’re in sales or account management, say-you might try something like this: You can tailor this template pretty easily if your work is online or easily sharable, like writing, marketing or design. And you’ve done so proactively, which is never a bad thing. In this message, you’ve shared another example of your work, you’ve highlighted a recent success and you’ve reiterated your enthusiasm for the position. I think something similar to this would be very impactful for Dolby, and I’d be excited to jump right in and get started. It’s already had more than 5,000 shares-the company’s second most successful program ever. In the meantime, I wanted to share a social campaign that I launched this week.
You had mentioned that you’d be in touch with next steps on the hiring process by Wednesday, so I just wanted to check in. You might say something like this instead: Let’s say you’re applying to a social media position with Dolby. That said, instead of asking if there’s anything you can do to, in essence, boost your candidacy, why not take that next step and provide something that does just that? It’s brief, it’s polite and it gets your name in front of the hiring manager.