I've done a fair amount of job interviews and cover letters are always stripped by our (internal) recruiters. When external recruiters are involved it looks lik

I've done a fair amount of job interviews and cover letters are always stripped by our (internal) recruiters. When external recruiters are involved it looks like they do $ cat resume.doc | strings | mail iigs@company.com. Maybe there's a strategy here: Cover letter: I love frat-houses and beer! I want to bring my spiky hair to work for you! Resume: When I'm not submitting patches to the RoR team I'm writing Scala code for my EC2 cluster. It's a shame the economy is so bad. It would be fun to do some exploratory job hunting to see if this strategy would work.