Happy Monday!

Welcome to your daily dose of curated early-career opportunities! Your job search shouldn’t feel confusing, late, or based on luck.

Runway shows you your match percentage for every job, gives resume + skill-gap feedback, and helps you apply smarter instead of applying blindly.

If you want clarity on today’s roles (and thousands more), check your matches here:

Here are today's fresh opportunities for Monday, June 8th:

Everyone applies through the portal and waits. The portal is where resumes go to disappear into a pile of 500.

The people who get interviews do one extra thing: they email a real human. It feels scary and it feels like you're bothering someone. You're not. Recruiters get paid to find good candidates, and you raising your hand makes their job easier.

Step 1: Find the email

Find the recruiter or someone on the team on LinkedIn. Then guess the email, company formats are usually [email protected] or [email protected]. Free tools like Hunter confirm the pattern in seconds.

Step 2: Keep it 4 lines

Long cold emails don't get read. Short and specific wins:

"Hi [Name], I just applied for the [Role] at [Company] and wanted to introduce myself directly. I'm a [year] at [school] with experience in [one relevant skill], and I'm drawn to this role because [one specific reason tied to the company]. I'd love the chance to be considered, happy to share anything helpful. Thanks for your time, [Name]."

Step 3: The one detail that makes it work

That "one specific reason tied to the company" is everything. Generic emails get ignored. A line proving you actually know what they do gets a reply.

Compare:

One took 30 extra seconds and reads completely differently.

Step 4: Send it, then move on

Don't stalk your inbox. Send it, apply to more jobs, follow up once in 4-5 days if you hear nothing. That's it.

The reframe: You're not begging. You're a candidate making it easy for a busy person to find you. The worst case is no reply, which is exactly where you started.

Do this today: Pick the one role from today's list you want most. Find one person there. Send the 4-line email before you close your laptop.

You got this!
-Ford from Runway

See you in your inbox tomorrow morning,

P.S. Join Our Student Discord Community

Our Discord is where students share real-time internship finds, get resume feedback, and see what’s working from other students first-hand.

Active Channels:

Join the Community →

newsletter.joinrunway.io