Career writing tools

The messages around an application: the email that carries your CV, your LinkedIn profile text, and the awkward one — asking someone for a referral.

Details

Your nameYour phone

Job titleCompany

Person's name Blank if unknownWhere you saw it

One line on why you fit Optional

Nothing sends from here. Copy it into your own email, read it once, send it yourself.

Draft

Edit it — this is a starting point, not a finished email.

Subject

Attach your CV as a PDF named Your-Name-CV.pdf.

Your details

Current titleCompany or status

FieldYears

What you actually do The everyday work, plainly Top skills Comma separated One real achievement Optional Who you want to hear from

LinkedIn is public and permanent. Keep it to things you would happily be asked about in an interview.

Your profile text

Fill the form and press the button.

Details

Your nameTheir name

Role you're afterCompany

How you know them Or how you found them One line about you

Keep it short. A referral request that takes 20 seconds to read gets answered. One that takes three minutes does not.

Message

Written for WhatsApp or LinkedIn — short by design.

Asking for a referral puts someone's own reputation on the line. Make it easy to say no, and never ask a stranger to vouch for work they have not seen.