Especially with the rise of "ghost postings" so quantity over quality is greater than ever these days
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Never have done a cover letter. Just seems like pandering pretentious tripe
I always thought of a cover letter for clarifying something on your resume. Ex: you’re changing careers or industries and out want to clarify why your experience is relevant. So, I don’t do them for every application but in certain situations.
Same. They already have my resume and application for the job, I'm not writing a whole page groveling and begging them to hire me.
When I get them from new grads I delete them. Experienced people or weird resumes I might read if borderline.
It's worth writing a generic one.
Depends on the job, for engineering...nah
I've had multiple recruiters tell me they like mine. It doesn't hurt. More space for buzzwords for the AI to read.
I just got an AI to write a cover letter for me highlighting specific skjlls, and then just edited those skills to fit the job I was applying to. Wasn't really that much effort, and I did land a job in about 2 weeks of searching.
Never worked with a recruiter
Had enough bad experience from one half to know I don't want to be on the other half