Cover letters are for those that send in applications.
Successful people network instead; don´t be part of the PDF pile, work around it!
Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume
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#82So AI resumes and AI cover letters are now being auto-submitted to AI generated automated job postings then parsed by hiring AI. What an absolute circus this is becoming.
Applicants don’t want to write them, hiring managers don’t want to read them. Applicants want to signal and hiring managers want to be signaled.
I really hope AI cover letters finally put an end to this nonsense.
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#83Cover letters are for those that send in applications. Successful people network instead; don´t be part of the PDF pile, work around it!
Actually incredibly true. I’m batting 1000 over my entire career because of it. I hear about jobs from people I know, get in contact with the team / hiring manager directly. By the time I’m actually emailing a PDF of my resume it’s already a formality.
I’ve gotten hired twice for positions that didn’t even exist when I started the process. Let me tell you it’s real easy when there are no other applicants.
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#85This is neat! The typing animation in the title a nice touch.
My first question for these "Use GPT to X" projects is, what does it bring to the table beyond ChatGPT capabilities? Couldn't I use chat.openai.com to accomplish the same thing?
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#86Cover letters are for those that send in applications. Successful people network instead; don´t be part of the PDF pile, work around it!
That way, you hire people who are good at networking, and/or gaming the system, rather than people that are good at the work you're hiring for.
This adequately explains one or more places I've worked.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think ChatGPT is going to remove the value from a lot of roles and tasks. If it can be done by ChatGPT .. there's no point in the ritual; we'll most likely end up scrapping it. No cover letters. No marketing fluff. No library photography. Less hiring. Less jobs.
It will be interesting to see how ChatGPT interacts with BS jobs. Could go a lot of ways. One interesting scenario is if humans to finally accept that if you have a big population in a technologically advanced society, the demand for human labor is going to drop, while the supply increases. The only real jobs are those that require rare talent, on a power law dist. The best they can do is no negative contribution. NP…
So many jobs just exist to make money.
I'm praying that humans have the ability to think more about meaningful purpose.
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#88This just devalues cover letters. As a hiring manager I am strongly motivated to avoid channels which would cause me to wade through a bunch of fake crap. If there turns out to be no way to filter out AI generated text, we will end up that you have to attend an in person interview at some intermediary whose job is just to verify that you are a human being and you have some idea what the job ad said.
> This just devalues cover letters.
Low-effort cover letters have been around forever.
As far as I'm seeing, this is just another tool to provide boilerplate cover letters where people lack communication ability to write their own.
As a hiring manager, the majority of cover letters I already receive are basically worthless. You can tell when someone is writing a cover letter because they think they have to, or when someone is writing a cover letter because they've actually thought about how to communicate something to the hiring manager.
Most of the boilerplate cover letters communicate basically nothing useful, and I end up ignoring them after the first read through.
When people make an effort, though, I make sure to carry the cover letter through the interview process so we can all collect the additional context as we interview the candidate.
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#89We don’t require cover letters, but a lot of people send them anyway. Many of them are useless boilerplate. Even before ChatGPT, you could tell that a lot of people looked up generic cover letter boilerplate and treated it like a mad libs where they filled in the company name and job position. I wish more people knew just how low the bar was for writing a decent cover letter. You don’t need to spend hours researching…
> Just a few short sentences that add some context to your application that might not be fully captured in a resume format can make a huge difference.
“I’m applying for this internship because I have already done Java in class and that’s where I want to spend my career”
That would be 4 lines more than all my internship applicants.
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#90I did this with chatGPT a few weeks back. It made up a really great cover letter that highlighted all of my skills matching them with each requirement. The problem was it made up a few skills that I don't have.