• expatriado@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    people on LinkedIn swear on cover letters, but i applied to 30+ jobs with 50/50 cover letter usage, the 4 interviews i got were with non-cover letter applications

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      1 day ago

      Same for me. ngl, it appears to me that the cover letter hurts me more than it helps. Though… I really do use ai to make it so… Maybe that’s why.

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      A lot of automated application portals seem to require it… Considering where AI is at I see that declining in the future however