🚀 How to Email a Recruiter After Applying (Without Sounding Awkward)

The Follow Up Most Students Are Afraid to Send

You submit your application.
You spend hours fixing your resume, polishing every bullet point, and finally hit “Submit.”

Then nothing.

Days pass. Then weeks.
You start wondering if your resume even got seen.

Here’s the truth: most recruiters never see every application. Popular job postings can receive hundreds of submissions, and it is easy for yours to get lost.

But you can change that by doing one simple thing.
Email the recruiter directly.

It is not awkward.
Recruiters actually appreciate when a student shows initiative in a professional way.

Why Following Up Works So Well

Recruiters are human.
They may not remember resume number 243, but they will remember the student who followed up with a short, respectful message.