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I want to second this a lot. Even if I (coincidentally) have a side project relevant to a job opening, I make a point to mention it in my cover letter, and mos
by ThePadawan 5y ago
I want to second this a lot.
Even if I (coincidentally) have a side project relevant to a job opening, I make a point to mention it in my cover letter, and most interviewers still say they haven't looked at it (if they've read the cover letter at all).
- sokoloff 5y agoI don’t think I’ve ever seen a cover letter from a candidate in over 25 years of interviewing. They’re maybe seen by HR, but long stripped before the interviewer in my experience.
- ThePadawan 5y agoFor me, it varied. In the beforetimes, sometimes I walked into the first onsite interview and the technical interviewer had printed it out!
- ghaff 5y agoDepends if you go through HR or not.
- Ensorceled 5y agoI can only think of a couple of times where HR decided the cover letter was worth including with the resume in a very similar time frame.
- stevenwoo 5y agoI have seen every cover letter accompanying a job application in every company I have worked for but I have never worked for a company with more than 200 employees or so.
- Ensorceled 5y agoStrange. I've worked in startups my entire career, hired over 100 developers and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of cover letters I've seen.
- snarkypixel 5y agoWell cover letter has somewhat been replaced by an introduction email, no?
- Ensorceled 5y agoTrue. But there are still recommendations to email with a coverletter.pdf AND a resume.pdf. Maybe developers in Toronto don't follow those rules ...