{"id":845,"date":"2012-12-12T15:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/careerplanning.me.holycross.edu\/?p=845"},"modified":"2012-12-12T15:42:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:42:53","slug":"hire-me-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/2012\/12\/12\/hire-me-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hire me, Santa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Happy Finals Week, Holy Cross!<\/h3>\n<p>Aside from watching 24 hours worth of <em>A Christmas Story <\/em>and being caught up in the initial glee and eventual boredom of Winter Break, many of you will be applying for internships or jobs during this time away from HC. If you&#8217;ve been through the application process already, you know Cover letters mark a critical piece in the internship\/job hunt. Along with your resume, cover letters set the tone between you and your potential employer.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">So in the spirit of the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>Christmas <\/strong><strong>(&amp; job hunting<\/strong>)<strong> Season<\/strong>, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">we&#8217;ve included a sample cover letter from<\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Elphadora <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">El<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">f<\/span><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000\">,<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000000\">a college senior looking to apply to <strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">Santa&#8217;s workshop<\/span>. <\/strong>Just like us, Elphadora is seeking a job in this rough economy&#8230; she&#8217;s even willing to relocate to the North Pole! <strong>How does your cover letter shape up to hers?? <\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-846\" style=\"width: 567px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/12\/ElfCoverLetterPIC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-846\" title=\"ElfCoverLetterPIC\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/12\/ElfCoverLetterPIC.png\" width=\"567\" height=\"704\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa, you should hire her!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Have <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">a <\/span>great <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">holiday<\/span> break, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Holy<\/span> Cross! <\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Finals Week, Holy Cross! Aside from watching 24 hours worth of A Christmas Story and being caught up in the initial glee and eventual boredom of Winter Break, many of you will be applying for internships or jobs during this time away from HC. If you&#8217;ve been through the application process already, you know &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/2012\/12\/12\/hire-me-santa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hire me, Santa!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,57,64,80,103,147,229],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-career-advice","tag-career-planning","tag-christmas","tag-cover-letter","tag-elf","tag-holy-cross","tag-santas-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}