So i emailed a previous employer to see if he will be one of my references for a job that i am applying to and he did not respond. I emailed him on Thursday...should I email him again?? I know that he gets tons of emails a day....and i asked my former co-workers and they said that he's not on vacation so he must have read my email....any suggestions?

Call? That's usually more effective than an email...

err im not much of a phone person

Hm. Try sending it using McMaster's email system and requesting a "read reciept" or whatever that feature is called. This way it comes from a new email address and you will know whether he read it or not.

Thanks Farid for the tip!

I just tried sending an e-mail to my other account from my Mac e-mail and I checked "notify when read".

When I opened the e-mail from my other account and logged out and went back to my Mac account, I did not receive a notification e-mail that the message had been read...and I waited for a few min and kept logging in/out and refreshing.

Does this happen to anyone else?

Originally Posted by francis

err im not much of a phone person

uhh you may wanna work on that if you are looking for jobs. A call could be more effective and harder to ignore then an email

Definitely try to call, it's impossible to ignore a call. Even if you're not much of a phone person, it'll be good practice.

Originally Posted by francis

err im not much of a phone person

Stop limiting yourself that way. I wouldn't give a reference to somebody who couldn't even be bothered to call and speak to me in person...