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   Paul Reinheimer (preinheimer@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 00:52:00 JST Paul Reinheimer

   Either a lot of people are using ChatGPT to write cover letters, or the correct tone to write them in is now "effervescent teenager" and no one told me.

   Note: we did not ask for a cover letter, but provided an optional text area if people wanted to tell us stuff.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 00:51:59 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @preinheimer I wrote a blog post about this: https://evanp.me/2022/05/05/how-to-write-a-cover-letter/

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 01:21:46 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @preinheimer I think people who haven't done a resume screen don't know how much of the job is removing the 80-90% of candidates that don't meet the minimum requirements from the pile.

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     Paul Reinheimer (preinheimer@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 01:21:48 JST Paul Reinheimer

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan You and I are aligned here, that's great advice.

     Implied in your post is "you should write this for a particular job posting" which is huge. I'd rather have nothing than a generic cover letter. When we last posted a job on Indeed we got a _lot_ of "I'm excited to work for your company" with nothing about our specific job or company.

     I particularly like how you cover requirements that might not be met. It's a wish list, but if you're missing one completely tell me how you'll be awesome.