I literally had one generic cover letter, and just changed the company and position title when submitting it.
If I thought anyone was going to read it, I would feel less bad about writing them.
We absolutely read them at my place, and they make a huge difference on who will and won’t get an interview.
We have to write multiple professional letters daily that all end up being subject to Open Records requests. If you can’t handle a simple cover letter you aren’t worth interviewing.
Exposing the terrible inefficiencies of the blasphemous Public Sector.
Obviously, all of this work should be done by AI.
My first job out of college was back in the days when you bought a newspaper and looked in the classifieds.
I set up a mail merge in word to generate cover letters for hundreds of jobs. Each entry in the database had a single sentence related to the job to make the cover letter look like it was written just for that job.
Years after I was hired, my boss told me that they received hundreds of applicants, but I stood out because I took the time to write a cover letter to go with my resume.
It was an IT job, so I always figured it was less cheating and more a confirmation of my skills.
As a EUrangutan I had to google what a cover letter means and now I am depressed.
Are your CVs typically just bullet points about experience and education?
I honestly don’t know. I found my job through an employment agency, I worked there a few months and they offered me a permanent contract. I said yes and that was nine years ago.
But how will they know that you want the job?
Please find attached my AI generated resume in response to your AI generated job listing.
I once send single empty page pdf file and during call hr assumed their pdf viewer was broken. I haven’t denied it.
Even better, each job app asks for something specific so you have to alter or re-write your cover letter hundreds of times for the hundreds of apps you have to submit to get a single shitty job.
Or they have a questionnaire, so instead of just submitting the cover letter and resume you’ve painstakingly constructed (and probably having to alter those), you have to type a paragraph long answer for each of the questions, amounting to at least another page or two you have to generate every. single. time.
I work in IT and essentially every job app had a questionnaire.
That way when you get a job you feel like you’ve won some sort of dystopian lotto and are just happy you aren’t starving in a gutter. Feels intentional.
Then your cover letter should say that.
funny story: once i sent a generic cover letter to a bunch of entry-level jobs. one responded that i didn’t tailor the cover letter to the position, so i changed the title and sent them the same cover letter. they didn’t respond lol
i didn’t tailor the cover letter to the position
You should have printed it out and cut it into the shape of a shirt.
My cover letter is fire because I genuinely want to work where I apply, mostly because I dont apply at for profit companies :D
I’ve had to eat a whole bus tire in a job interview.
Doesn’t ai make it easier? Create a template and just copy and paste shit.
Now THATS a spicy meatball!
