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I guess it depends how interesting your company is. If you have a great company, than maybe you can afford to filter out based on cover letter. I would suspect
by francisofascii 4y ago
I guess it depends how interesting your company is. If you have a great company, than maybe you can afford to filter out based on cover letter. I would suspect most employers don't actually read the cover letter and have it simply as a formality. It is simply another time sink for job applicants: scan the website, try to find out what this company does, insert a few custom sentences into your cover letter template about you are exited to work on the {insert specific tech} here. I don't buy that it signals much of anything, but I could be wrong.
- auggierose 4y agoI am not an employer, so I don't know if that would be an effective strategy. But I DO know that the few times I actually were happy to write a cover letter, I was really interested in the company. So how do you filter for that? You cannot make the cover letter required, because as you said yourself, that doesn't signal anything then. Anyone can write a decent cover letter if forced to. So the best way is to make it optional. If you don't get enough people writing cover letters with that strategy, you can still change it and look at applications without cover letter. Or you just use the cover letter as one of many signals in addition to the resume.