How much time do you guys spend on tailoring your resume/writing cover letters to fit specific roles? Is the ROI worth it?

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None, I usually leave the name of a different firm in my cover letter just so that no one takes my loyalties for granted.

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Yep, make a detailed 2page version and make it in a way where you just can remove the irrelevant bullets once you tailor it. Takes 10-30min after initial setup

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If not required I wouldn‘t send a cover letter as they only check your CV. If required, I use the same approach as for the CV, however, customizing takes much longer as you can only keep a small section similar (what makes you special but is not in your CV), all the rest unfortunately needs to be written newly based on position/company. However, in the same industry you can copy there a lot too.

Overall cover letters slowly seem to disappear (which I personally think is good).

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