Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

Re:Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since... by grepfru_it on Sunday August 01, 2021 @05:03PM (#28029944)

Now if you want a job outside of FAANGM (bigtech), a well written cover letter will make you the shoe-in candidate.

YMMV

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Re:Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since... by autotune on Sunday August 01, 2021 @05:08PM (#28029995)

I’ve literally never had to write a cover letter in my 6+ year career in tech outside of FAANGM. Complete waste of time imho.

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Re:Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since... by catillac on Sunday August 01, 2021 @05:29PM (#28030180)

I hire and pay top of market and I definitely look at cover letters, at least scan them (some are huge tells that they don’t even know what we do, so it weeds out the candidate), and often they’re the thing that differentiates the various candidates who have similar backgrounds. I’ve also hired lots of people without cover letters. I don’t think spending a few minutes writing a paragraph like another poster stated above is a waste of time.

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Re:Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since... by Apocryphon on Monday August 02, 2021 @02:40AM (#28033545)

How are you sure you're paying top of market?

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Re:Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since... by grepfru_it on Sunday August 01, 2021 @05:51PM (#28030421)

And i'm explaining from my 22 year career, my best positions came with a cover letter

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