Cover letter = Beg for this job.
I’m not doing it
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Cover letter = Beg for this job.
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I have not done a cover letter since college and. Got plenty of job offers without one.
I don't do cover letters anymore.
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Lol, don’t you have one that you just recycle and change firm names?
Chief
Mistakes happen and they also know that forgetting to change the name doesn’t always equate to a terrible employee. They looked at other criteria too.
Cover letters work when your resume isn’t a good key word fit for the role. It can help you get past the computer screen if you craft it to match the jd.
^^^This. Also, when you don't have much experience yet...you can explain why you think you're a fit for the role. Otherwise, I'd skip it.
I stopped submitting cover letters and applying to jobs that require you to copy paste your resume text. Feels great
Yep, I refuse out of principal
I saw a LI post where someone ranted about people not using cover letters. Said if you don’t put one, she isn’t even reading your resume because clearly you don’t care enough. Really? I’m expected to write a page-long essay for a dozen different companies to accompany my resume? Meanwhile they’ll give it a 45 second read before potentially tossing it? No thanks. I’ve landed two jobs since starting in corporate America, neither of which had a cover letter attached.
PS: I’m aware you can largely copy and paste cover letters, but depending on the position, some letters need to be reworked to better match the job description. It’s a completely unnecessary and outdated thing to do. It made sense when your resume was, literally, “in a stack,” as they say in college. Except it’s not in a stack now, it’s on some HR director’s computer.
All a cover letter is doing is attracting the desperate ones and turning off the people who are much sought-out since they have other options and don't want to waste their time with a cover letter.
I just applied a bunch of places with no cover letter, got an offer at every single one. If it’s optional, I would skip it with the market right now.