A Professional Email

[blueerica]

I need to send out an email to a contact I have for CBS Outdoor in Utah. I'm really interested in working for them, for a variety of reasons, and hope I can score something within a short time of getting out there.

It dawned on me last night that in all the chaos of the last few weeks, I forgot to get a jump on it. So now I'm stuck with a week until I get to Utah - I'll be there for a week and a half. I'd like to send an email, but am wondering what I should say in the title that would make her open it and would leave a good impression.

The contents are somewhat obvious to me, but I plan to introduce myself, tell her that I'm living in southern California, graduating at the end of the year and am planning to move at the start of 2008. Not resume-style, but enough to give her the basics with a sense that I have good communication skills. Unfortunately, if she doesn't open it, I'm left with nothing.

So, I guess I'm looking for a good subject line. Any ideas? Or perhaps I shouldn't even do that at all. Maybe I should make a phone call at the beginning of next week? Or would that be too intrusive?

Unfortunately, I won't have a chance like this to be out in Utah during the week, so I can't do this closer to the time I am actually moving out there, and I want to leave a good impression for when I am out there, as well as getting a more personal view of how the market is in Utah. Your opinions are incredibly valuable to me, so any input you may have would be greatly appreciated.

I'm just so nervous about trying to find a job at this age, fresh out of college and so far from just about everyone I know except J. I've also been looking at a number of other opportunities, and am concerned that my inability to be out there will hurt my cause. Should I just wait until I move out there to start applying? There's no immediate financial need for me to have to work for probably the first month...

*beg*