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Unsolicited Application

Unsolicited or spontaneous applying is when you apply somewhere without a free job having been explicitely announced. Especially recommendable it is to apply unsolicitedly with your favoured employer where you mostly wish to work and can use your competences best.

• Some companies do not at all advertise their jobs. Alternatively, they offer web-forms for unsolicited application. Always check if your favourite employer provides this
• Even in an unsolicited application, you should apply for a specified job or position and describe your idea of the range of duties concretely and realistically
• Stress your reasons why you want to work just in that company or institution, and why you fit that job best
• Inform as well as possible about the company – web, press, friends – and figure out the right, professional person to adress
• Contact that person and the respective personnel department. This can be done by phone or, even better, via some person you know and who can make direct contact
• Spend at least as much care and effort on an unsolicited application as you would spend on an application responding to an advert