When did cover letters quietly come back? I am seeing roles ask for them again, even for jobs with 500 plus applicants. Half the time it feels like no one is reading them anyway. Are you writing them or skipping those roles entirely?

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I only write them when the role truly fits. Otherwise I skip. High volume roles rarely read them, but niche or senior roles sometimes do, especially when used to assess communication.

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I just skip over them because I'm not going sit there and try to convince them how much I want to work there for something outside of a paycheck; when I don't even know if I want to work there before interviewing.

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They never went away.

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They're using AI to read them, so might as well use AI to write them.

Yup and embed it with emoji to override the reading ai to select your resume.

I really enjoyed not having to write cover letters... Sometimes I write a specific one if I'm really interested in a role.

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