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Re:Women Using Less Feminine Terms in Cover Letters Are Less... by scaryclam on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:04AM (#24980230)
You should really start reading them. Many contain valuable information about the candidate and would help you do you job more effectively. I also work as a hiring manager and would probably have discounted more than one really good hire if I'd not read the cover letter and gained context that didn't fit into their CV.
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Re:Women Using Less Feminine Terms in Cover Letters Are Less... by jjav on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:38PM (#24985929)
Not the OP but I've also never read a cover letter. It's not that I wouldn't read one if offered, but I've never received a cover letter in 20+ years of interviewing people. Either nobody writes one or HR filters them out.
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Re:Women Using Less Feminine Terms in Cover Letters Are Less... by nashashmi on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:15AM (#24980349)
Second this. Flat resumes with bulleted features are so incomplete. They don’t show personality or character. They don’t have emphasis. Just a bland list of tasks done.
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Re:Women Using Less Feminine Terms in Cover Letters Are Less... by leetcrew on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:44AM (#24980654)
can you expand on this a bit? I usually try to go for the joel hiring criteria, "smart, gets stuff done". from this perspective, it's kind of hard for me to see what valuable information could be in a cover letter that shouldn't already be in the resume itself. I just want to see if they've done anything similar already and how it turned out.
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