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I feel your pain. Just this week I received a form rejection email for a job doing EXACTLY what my last job was in the same industry for a competitor of my old firm. I should have been the perfect candidate as I could be up to speed with only onboarding for firm technology, policies and procedures (which should have been similar to my previous job as it is a highly regulated industry). I should have been the perfect candidate, but I didn’t even warrant an interview. WTF?!? And I know I was someone they should have at least screened because I hired for my team at my last firm. From my experience in management, I’m guessing what is happening (there and many other places we are applying at) is that they are only posting the jobs as a check box procedure for a position where they have a need and hiring from within so they don’t have to do reductions/layoffs. They aren’t really interested in hiring people, but more reallocating staff to fit their needs and control costs. It’s usually cheaper to move people around than to hire someone new.
I've been told that a lot of companies today, if not most, do employ some kind of algorithmic filtering of applications and cover letters. Which is pretty depressing. I've put some real care and thought into cover letters. And it's frustrating to think they may be scanned by some robotic program. I guess the best approach is to hope that some literate person may get to see what you've saying. I mean, what else can you do?
I agree that most mid to large companies use some sort of technology to filter applicants before a recruiter sees the “qualified candidates “. I know when I was hiring, the recruiting department only passed along the resumes of those that made it through the filters and them, but didn’t pass along the cover letters, if one was included. It was frustrating as my jobs required highly skilled proofers and grammar experts. Covers letters would have been an extra help. I don’t know if anyone is seeing my cover letters or not, but I’m still sending them just in case they do and it is what makes me stand out. I’ve had a couple of jobs that didn’t let you include more than one attachment, so for those, I just included the resume.
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I read every resume I get but don't waste my time on cover letters. No AI is involved.
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I think it depends. I feel like there would be a process that would automatically skim over to pick the better suited candidates, but I would then hope an actual person would then go over the chosen candidates to see who fits better