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- nb3
Cover letters are a complete waste of time! No one is reading them and no one cares. Just leave the form blank. If it’s a required web form field just upload your resume twice. Trust me.
If you have something truly interesting to say, send an email to the hiring manager.
Fucking cover letters. Pfffft
- I never read them. I scan through their CV then I go straight to their portfolio.Chimp
- These are also required less and less.grafician
- If you submit a blank cover letter here you won’t be considered. This is true of any any place that asks for one because they absolutely ARE read.monospaced
- Are you serious? Hope they don’t missing out on all the candidates like menb
- Would you describe your company as a sleepy giant? Behind the times? Says they value innovation but can never innovate? Lulznb
- Yeah in tech nobody asks for that, even CVs are basically a HR formality "we need the CV to add it to your file"grafician
- "Send your cover letter by fax at XXXXXX"grafician
- @nb, no, nope, nope. I actually read the cover letters. All of them. Still do.
:)monospaced - It’s part of how we assess communication (writing) and it does help when we receive so many applicants.monospaced
- tech ... that’s cute. Playing a whole different game over here with the big boys. Bye.monospaced
- After reading a ton of these I can smell a copypasta letter from the first sentence, a nice one, makes much easier to look at the other details of a person.sted
- CVs are a must for HR not some formality, simple doc would do. It has to include specific details and needs to be sent by the candidate.sted
- Details can disappear from social media profiles, websites. But if you sent a document that stays with us with all the fake universities for example :)sted
- If a candidate sends me a cover letter, I read it, of course. It’s respectful. But if a candidate doesn’t send me a cover later, I don’t think twice about it.nb
- People have resumes and portfolios, that’s enough for me to know If I want to talk to themnb