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Welcome To The Start Of Your New Career.

Cover letters still matter.

Dillon Ford is the Marketing Manager for ePromos.com, a promotional products company based in New York, NY. His company hires interns interested in marketing. He says not sending a cover letter is a huge mistake.

When I look at resumes, I always look at the cover letters first because those give me the best sense of what kind of writer they are, what kind of interest they have in the position, and how well they are able to put concepts together to make a statement.

Ford adds that template cover letters are just as bad as not sending one at all. He says intern hopefuls who submit form letters aren't relating any of their experience/interest to the job posting, they aren't mentioning anything about what drew them to the job description/posting/company and that just shows me laziness. We don't want someone that can't be bothered to do some kind of due diligence to get a position. We want someone that goes out of their way to get this position and that usually means doing research about the position and the company.

http://www.gradtogreat.com/tips_advice/article-what_employers_think_about_interns.php

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Software Engineer


Groupon is the fastest-growing internet business in history. We (proudly) invented the white-hot social commerce business and are (humbly) the world leader in innovative, local, e-commerce platforms.

Are you a recent grad, excited about building innovative products? Groupon has openings for creative, energetic, software engineers to join our Silicon Valley or Downtown Chicago technology teams, and help us pioneer local e-commerce round the globe.

As part of our technology team, you’ll solve important problems every day. You will build amazing products used by tens of millions of real people. And you’ll work closely with a world-class R&D team, learning state-of-the-art technologies, and experiencing life in a fast-growth Internet startup. For the right candidates, this is probably the adventure of a lifetime!

You’ll be asked to work on a wide variety of projects and technologies, but successful candidates will need:

  • B.S. Computer Science or related field, from a competitive school
  • Excellent software engineering skills in modern languages (Ruby/Python/Java/C++)
  • Proficiency in *NIX development environments
  • Web application development experience
  • File system and SQL database experience
  • Solid understanding of how Internet and Web technologies work
  • Big points for interesting software projects you’ve designed and built