If you’ve ever had to screen and interview job applicants, you will identify with this. I have regrettably been through similar experiences as the author of this article, and it’s even worse when you have to interview someone who should have already been filtered out based on their resume, because then you have to come up with a nice way of telling them that you won’t be calling them back. If you find yourself in the position of looking for a job read this.
Getting Your Résumé Read - by Joel Spolsky
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i’m discovering more and more that cover letters are important. i always considered email to be the death of the cover letter, and when i’ve had to hire, i’ve always skipped right over the cover letters. guess i’ve been doing it wrong…