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Re:What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in... by amf12 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:14AM (#24018710)
> Every time I got a call, I asked them if my cover letter played a role in their choosing to call me. The response was always "Oh you wrote a cover letter? Let me check it out."

> Not one person had read it.

This is probably true. But one advantage I see of cover letter is to include more keywords in your application and keep the resume clean and focused. It could potentially get you through keyword filters or boost your ranking in keyword searches.

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Re:What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in... by jlokier on Sunday August 02, 2020 @03:10PM (#24030818)
That's an insightful and interesting idea.

The need to stuff keywords while also providing a clean and small resume that actually says something interesting other than the keywords, is a difficult tension.

Do you have any evidence that the keywords present in a cover letter are taken into account though?

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