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Wait, How Do I Write This Email?: Game-Changing Templates for Networking and the Job Search
You sit down to write a career-related email and then...you freeze.
You think: "How do I begin? And what's the best way to make my point?"
In his comprehensive guide, career expert Danny Rubin provides more than
100 critical email and document templates for networking and the job search. With each template, Danny saves you time and takes the stress out of professional email writing.
Page after page, Danny offers detailed instructions for networking (ex: how to contact an alum from your school) and the job search (ex: how to apply even if the company has no openings at the time). He also includes smart LinkedIn templates, memorable handwritten notes, the outline for a powerful one-page resume and a fresh cover letter strategy with a focus on storytelling.
Wait, How Do I Write This Email? is a must-have resource for college students, recent grads, entrepreneurs, people who make a late-stage career change and anyone else who needs to "get out there" and form new business relationships.
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Danny Rubin is a communications expert who teaches college students, recent grads and working professionals the power of strong writing and networking skills.
Danny believes improved writing skills can unlock doors and start conversations that may transform your career. He's also the author of 25 Things Every Young Professional Should Know by Age 25.
You can find more of Danny's insights on his blog, News To Live By, which highlights the career advice "hidden" in the day's top stories. Follow him on Twitter at @DannyHRubin.
You think: "How do I begin? And what's the best way to make my point?"
In his comprehensive guide, career expert Danny Rubin provides more than
100 critical email and document templates for networking and the job search. With each template, Danny saves you time and takes the stress out of professional email writing.
Page after page, Danny offers detailed instructions for networking (ex: how to contact an alum from your school) and the job search (ex: how to apply even if the company has no openings at the time). He also includes smart LinkedIn templates, memorable handwritten notes, the outline for a powerful one-page resume and a fresh cover letter strategy with a focus on storytelling.
Wait, How Do I Write This Email? is a must-have resource for college students, recent grads, entrepreneurs, people who make a late-stage career change and anyone else who needs to "get out there" and form new business relationships.
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Danny Rubin is a communications expert who teaches college students, recent grads and working professionals the power of strong writing and networking skills.
Danny believes improved writing skills can unlock doors and start conversations that may transform your career. He's also the author of 25 Things Every Young Professional Should Know by Age 25.
You can find more of Danny's insights on his blog, News To Live By, which highlights the career advice "hidden" in the day's top stories. Follow him on Twitter at @DannyHRubin.
264 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2015
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February 9, 2017
Reviewed by Josh Cramer for Reader Views (01/17)
As an English professor, I have read many books and articles on writing, but have found very few I could recommend to my students. Usually, I’m limited to books every writer knows like “Eats, Shoots and Leaves.” With “Wait, How Do I Write This Email?” by Danny Rubin, I finally have an additional book to recommend to all of my previous and future students.
As much as I enjoyed the whole book (in these 200 pages, Danny Rubin includes many templates for not only writing the titular emails, but also how to network, write handwritten notes, resumes, and more which are well worth the read and that I know I’ll be using again and again), these sections aren’t the true strength of this book. No, the true power of Rubin’s book can be found in the first 25 pages.
What can be this good that it would overshadow the professional templates and other advice? It’s a chapter on what Rubin calls “How to Write Everything Better” and he’s right. He focuses on the two most important criteria of professional writing: how to be brief and how to be interesting.
Usually, when it comes to writing, there are two schools I’ve found: either the writing will be overflowing with flowery language that doesn’t really add anything of value, or the writing will be trimmed to the barebones until it is a lifeless husk that offers no insight. Neither is a good alternative. What Rubin offers is a compromise between these two schools:
1. First, cut out all superfluous information
2. Second, add in wrinkles to make the writing informative and sticky
This is truly the foundation of the book. Whatever you write should be pared down to the barebones, but then built back up until it is sticky. For example, which of these statements sticks out to you more (taken from Rubin’s book):
“After college, I taught English at a school in China.”
OR
“After college, I taught English speaking skills for one year to a group of 25 school-age boys at a school in rural China, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest major city.”
Which one of these provides a more thorough picture for you? Which one will stick with you even after you stop reading this review?
By the time you finish “Wait, How Do I Write This Email?” by Danny Rubin, your first question when reviewing your writing will be, “Do I need this?”
In the case of this book, that answer is, “Yes, I do.”
As an English professor, I have read many books and articles on writing, but have found very few I could recommend to my students. Usually, I’m limited to books every writer knows like “Eats, Shoots and Leaves.” With “Wait, How Do I Write This Email?” by Danny Rubin, I finally have an additional book to recommend to all of my previous and future students.
As much as I enjoyed the whole book (in these 200 pages, Danny Rubin includes many templates for not only writing the titular emails, but also how to network, write handwritten notes, resumes, and more which are well worth the read and that I know I’ll be using again and again), these sections aren’t the true strength of this book. No, the true power of Rubin’s book can be found in the first 25 pages.
What can be this good that it would overshadow the professional templates and other advice? It’s a chapter on what Rubin calls “How to Write Everything Better” and he’s right. He focuses on the two most important criteria of professional writing: how to be brief and how to be interesting.
Usually, when it comes to writing, there are two schools I’ve found: either the writing will be overflowing with flowery language that doesn’t really add anything of value, or the writing will be trimmed to the barebones until it is a lifeless husk that offers no insight. Neither is a good alternative. What Rubin offers is a compromise between these two schools:
1. First, cut out all superfluous information
2. Second, add in wrinkles to make the writing informative and sticky
This is truly the foundation of the book. Whatever you write should be pared down to the barebones, but then built back up until it is sticky. For example, which of these statements sticks out to you more (taken from Rubin’s book):
“After college, I taught English at a school in China.”
OR
“After college, I taught English speaking skills for one year to a group of 25 school-age boys at a school in rural China, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest major city.”
Which one of these provides a more thorough picture for you? Which one will stick with you even after you stop reading this review?
By the time you finish “Wait, How Do I Write This Email?” by Danny Rubin, your first question when reviewing your writing will be, “Do I need this?”
In the case of this book, that answer is, “Yes, I do.”
August 21, 2019
More than writing email; it's about business communication
I think the title of the book doesn't reflect its content. This book is much more than writing email. It's a compilation of great business communication both written and verbal.
The book covers a wide range of topics from cover letter, resumes to job interviews (before during and after). There are email samples for every occasion you can easily adapt and use
The book also target all audiences; from a newly graduated student looking for internship to an experienced manager looking for a new career opportunity.
Overall, a great book.
I think the title of the book doesn't reflect its content. This book is much more than writing email. It's a compilation of great business communication both written and verbal.
The book covers a wide range of topics from cover letter, resumes to job interviews (before during and after). There are email samples for every occasion you can easily adapt and use
The book also target all audiences; from a newly graduated student looking for internship to an experienced manager looking for a new career opportunity.
Overall, a great book.
September 14, 2022
"Wait, How Do I Write This Email?" is an active book. You don't just sit and read it. You take it with you when you're going to write an email. I love how it interacts with the reader in an easygoing flow. It is full of true-to-life tips. I'm pretty sure I will read it once again.
August 2, 2018
Fantastic book for any new graduate and person looking for the next step in their early-to-mid level career. I used this book for a coaching presentation I did at Kennesaw State University and the students were extremely receptive. This book is GOLD and would recommend!!!!
April 10, 2024
Unfortunately this book came about five--or fifty--years too late for me, I've for the most part out of the job market, and this book is oriented towards twenty-somethings entering the job market in the Internet age. I did get a few tips out of it, though.
December 30, 2017
Danny Rubin empowers the reader with a new way to take the written world of communication, while taking a dip into the spoken world as well. This is a good read for people who are looking to tighten up their email game or for new bloods that are trying to land new careers.
June 26, 2022
We think that we already know how to write emails as we have already learned about writing them in our school and college days. But, we forget and don't even realize that everything is changing very fast and so the email world is also upgrading. The email writing format has become very concise and to the point these days.
The book gives us the latest guidelines that we can follow while writing or sending emails. The extra words that can be avoided, the story that we can weave to gather the attention of the reader at once, the salutations, the subject, the thank you note reply. Reading this book opened my brain to the type of emails that can written and sent to impress the other person.
This book will definitely upgrade your writing skills and help you keep in mind some crucial things that can create an impact once the email is delivered and read.
The book gives us the latest guidelines that we can follow while writing or sending emails. The extra words that can be avoided, the story that we can weave to gather the attention of the reader at once, the salutations, the subject, the thank you note reply. Reading this book opened my brain to the type of emails that can written and sent to impress the other person.
This book will definitely upgrade your writing skills and help you keep in mind some crucial things that can create an impact once the email is delivered and read.
January 7, 2021
I think the title of the book doesn't reflect its content. This book is much more than writing email. It's a compilation of great business communication both written and verbal.
The book covers a wide range of topics from cover letter, resumes to job interviews (before during and after). There are email samples for every occasion you can easily adapt and use.
The book also target all audiences; from a newly graduated student looking for internship to an experienced manager looking for a new career opportunity.
Overall, a great book.
The book covers a wide range of topics from cover letter, resumes to job interviews (before during and after). There are email samples for every occasion you can easily adapt and use.
The book also target all audiences; from a newly graduated student looking for internship to an experienced manager looking for a new career opportunity.
Overall, a great book.
July 27, 2021
I thought that emails are just for scams, but after reading this book i realised that emails are great way to convey ur thoughts and connect with people. By this book you will learn the power of words and the right way to use the power. Definitely pick this book if u r into marking, networking or seeking for job.
October 2, 2019
Beyond to how to write an emai
I really expected a different thematic on this book, I was waiting for a step by step guide to how to write an email, but the message was other. Good examples about interpersonal relationships.
I really expected a different thematic on this book, I was waiting for a step by step guide to how to write an email, but the message was other. Good examples about interpersonal relationships.
March 28, 2019
I think it fun. The tips just right, not only writing an email but more than. This book always sides with me.
May 24, 2022
A good book, this was helpful.
October 4, 2022
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October 6, 2018
Hands on template on how to communicate
More than 100+ useful templates that can enhance your communication skills in writing emails, newsletters, network with others, websites, blogs, press release.
Thanks a lot Dany
More than 100+ useful templates that can enhance your communication skills in writing emails, newsletters, network with others, websites, blogs, press release.
Thanks a lot Dany
July 1, 2025
this is good book give a insite what not to write, rather than what to write. it should be read to avoid long communications.
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