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WCDT strips 4361-4365 (Sep 28th to Oct 2nd 2020)

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shanejayell:
Cover letters! The bane of every job search.

Added poll. Voted Sven, as he SINGS his cover letter.

cesium133:
Ooh, Spookybot knows where the bodies are buried, which could make for a very effective cover letter...

Farideh:
My votes:

* Dora. As an employer, she knows what other employers want to hear
* Bubbles. She is good at writing letters (RIP, hypothetical reindeer)
* Marten. He's currently working in a library, and he can ask advice from Tai

Sorflakne:
I hate writing cover letters.  Why is a resume with a well crafted summary statement not sufficient?

Sidebar, but to hell with video resumes. Yeah, they're a niche thing right now, but it wouldn't surprise me if they're commonplace in a decade.

Tova:
As someone who has recently been through a metric shitton of job applications only recently, I feel this.


--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 27 Sep 2020, 19:08 ---I hate writing cover letters.  Why is a resume with a well crafted summary statement not sufficient?

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Think of it this this way.

The recruiter will have to read a lot of applications. They don't have time to read every single resume from top to bottom, or even every single well crafted summary statement.

The cover letter is 100% tailored to that specific job application and should be written with the single goal of convincing the recruiter to go to the effort of reading your well crafted resume.

The well crafted resume takes longer to read but should convince the recruiter to go to the effort of getting you in for an interview.

Every step in the job application chain is an opportunity for the recruiter to whittle their pile of applications down to something more manageable. The cover letter is the entry point where you are competing with every other application. Your cover letter must therefore be concise, hit all of the critical job requirements, and be persuasive.

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