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以我看套磁信的经历,给大家总结以下几点我认为套磁信中常见的问题: 本楼最下面补充两个最近看到的很差的陶瓷信,以供大家参考,避免犯类似错误。
忌:东拉西扯没逻辑
解释:不要洋洋洒洒说一大堆你的故事,你的爱好,你的性格等等不相关的话题。也不要太和老板套关系。另外,老板时间有限,看到很长的信就失去了细读的勇气,更别提看了几段还没到正题的。
忌:信中对于老板科研内容完全不提
解释:有的信只是说XX老师你好,我是XXX,我做了XXX,我对你的科研很感兴趣,以下是我的CV,盼回复等等。这明显就是态度不端正,根本就是海套,没有针对老师的科研做一番功课,也没有思考学生和老师的科研相关性如何。任你信里说的心潮澎湃,或者讲自己多么优秀,这种态度是很难让老师认真考虑你的。
忌:信中只是简单摘抄老板科研方向,并和自己科研生硬拉上关系
解释:这个是上面那条的进阶版。有的同学看了老师的科研介绍,就说“我对您XXX”方向很感兴趣,然后XXX这里就是老师主页上面某一段的摘抄。然后接着说“我做了YYY,和您科研非常的相关”等等。但是XXX和YYY根本就不是一回事。这种套磁太牵强,老师不会认真看的。总结一下,大忌是让老师觉得你根本不用心,或者你是在千篇一律的套磁。
忌:语法错误,用词诡异
解释:如果不确定用什么词,尽量用简单的。如果某句话不知道怎么表达,换个自己会说的说法。实在对英语写作掌握不好,那就先写一个中文的,推敲一下用词,然后翻译成你所知的最简单的英文版本。如果一封信让老师看的云里雾里,老师应该会认为这个学生的交流能力有问题吧。不过话说回来,比起语法和用词不行,还是逻辑不通顺更让人抓狂。
忌:过于谄媚,过于委婉,过于冷漠等
解释:美国的教授一般都比较喜欢直接的,不大喜欢看到什么your precious time啊,it's my great honor啊这种拍马屁的话,也不愿意看到学生小心翼翼的感觉。所以想说什么直说。但是也要注意基本的礼貌,不要直呼教授的名字,信末尾也要写best wishes这种话,然后不要让教授觉得你在逼他做决定,或者觉得你牛气哄哄,或者你根本不care他是否愿意收你等等。这些有的时候只是我们无心的结果,但是一定要尽量避免。
最近接连收到了两份想做postdoc的陶瓷信,看了以后很火大。贴在这里供大家参考,希望阿加避免犯类似的错误:
陶瓷信#1.
Respected Professor(都不写名字啊这里,分明就是模板套啊)
Let me introduce myself, I am Dr. ABC, I have been working on the XXX from the past five years. The research results were published in 9 international journals, 4 conference proceedings and data was also presented in 18 conferences. Now I wish do applied research work on XXX under your able guidance and share my ideas with your research group. Hence I request you, give me an opportunity to work in your reputed laboratory where the sophisticated equipment is available to perform advanced research work(分明就是扯淡,我刚刚开始工作,条件十分艰苦,哪里来的sophisticated equipment). I assure you that I can take up any challenging problem and work hard with all sincerity, discipline and good team spirit to meet the mark of your expectations. I herewith enclose my brief CV for your perusal and kind requesting for a PDF.
Expecting a favorable reply at your earliest convenience
Thanking you
Yours Sincerely ABC 陶瓷信#2: (甚至都没有开头的称呼。。。) I am Dr. ABC Recently, get Ph. D degree in Physics from XX University under Research supervision of Prof. XYZ. My thesis entitled on “XXX” in area of material science. In this direction, I am very much interest to enhance and improve my research. I kindly request to you that consider my application for post doctorate position, Here I am sending my Curiculam Vitate , please see the attachment.
with kind regards
点评:这两份陶瓷信就是我之前说的大忌,模板陶瓷信,没有看老师做的是什么方向,只是单纯把自己的方向列出来。这种信让人看了非常不开心,因为赤裸裸的就是对老师的不尊重。我在另一个帖子引用过quora上一个类似的讨论,一个国外的教授如是说: I get a lot of letters of this type. Let me tell you what NOT to do. The first contact should not be a spam letter -- that is, a letter that you could easily have sent to 1000 faculty members worldwide, and probably did. Why should I spend more time answering your letter or reading your resume/CV than you spent writing the letter? 我不能同意更多。
对于这种陶瓷信,我甚至抽出一分钟宝贵的时间回复:
Sorry but your research has nothing to do with mine, and I’m not sure if you know what I do. Please try not spam other people’s email like this. Thanks.
可见我的愤怒。 |