When I woke up I FaceTime to Angelique and she told me she struggles with finding motivation, so I decided to visit her and take my laptop with me to work on my stuff from her place. All of my work today was via LinkedIn and email my main focus was preparing and sending job offer letters and email to candidates who reach out to us after seeing our job offer online. The conversations were about what the company is like and what can the participant expect from us and what is it that we expect from him/her, how do we envision factory combat social distancing and integrated into our daily work life and general information about the platform we work from/in and people behind the scene.
Angelique lives in kanaleneiland, the name of their neighborhood speaks already for itself. So for lunch we bought two pizzas and decided to eat our lunch near the water, it was around 20° this perfect afternoon.
I have also written my very first rejection letter, for when one of the candidates does not meet the companies criteria and therefore will have to be very neatly rejected. I also did some reading online about what is necessary and what to watch out for when writing a rejection letter to someone you have never seen before. Rule number one is remember to stay professional and do not involve any personal emotions. Rule number two is not to make promises which cannot be made and just be straight to the point. Rule number three is explain why someone isn’t the perfect candid it this way you offer someone some feedback and you also indirectly provide some guidelines on what is expected from someone in this specific department. This are some rules I find important based on information I found online.
See the draft of my very first rejection letter below:
FGolinski blog on 2020 internship in Barcelona 