[wcfrobert]

A well-written, well-formatted email does convey some level of professionalism right? Even if it is a little wordy. Maybe this is no longer true with AI.

I went to a career fair recently and a new grad sent me an email afterwards. His three-paragraph email can basically be reduced to "I want to work for this company. I am qualified. Please hire me". But I don't know how I would feel about that if someone actually sent me an email like this.

[_heimdall]

That's totally fair, there's a balance. Maybe a better argument I could make is that I find people often lean too far to the end of being verbose without any real reason to it. You may not want to be blunt or rude either, the balance is in the middle.

For the career fair grad you mentioned, a couple paragraphs would have been my expectation - three paragraphs isn't off base. If I were them I'd want to say I want to work for you, but I'd also want to at least mention why I want to work there and why you'd want me there. To me that extra context is a better email than just saying "hire me" in one or two sentences.