Are you frustrated with writing cover letters?

[mrawrrr]

Because I am.

Or anyway, I was. This job-hunting process is far more humbling than I ever imagined. I confess that in two short months I was reduced to a sobbing, pessimistic, self-deprecating meatstack. This all culminated in an all-out ragequit cover letter that I wrote while skipping exercise, just to vent.

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[silentruth]

lol.. i like it. should've sent this one.

[mrawrrr]

lol It's a gag letter. Maybe one day I'll fire it off to Google and see if they reply.

[ischkabibble]

just remember that with these things... it's always just that luck that something clicks with the person reading it. While one person might like the quirky bit you write at the beginning, some might find it unappealing and unorthodox. You could try a different cover letter every time and nothing would be that amazing cover letter because you happened to be missing that key something that makes you memorable.

If you go to career seminars, they have this cool tip to actually analyze the wording in the job post and break down the specific hard skills and soft skills they're looking for and then give examples in your cover letters to indicate without specifying that you have those skills.

[ischkabibble]

(So don't eat too much ice cream. It's not you they don't like. But something'll happen)

[mrawrrr]

(I know what you /really/ want--you just want some of that ice cream. S'okay, you can admit it. There's plenty to go around. ;D)

[mrawrrr]

Yeah, that's also what a wise friend of mine said too (she was hunting for almost a year before she was hired simultaneously by two places).

I've been to a few career seminars before, but they never seemed as useful as they hyped. I find I have an easier time showing my resume/cover letter to people and letting them beat me in the head with it.

It's so funny how people are surprised that I suck at this. lol I hate selling myself. Even that sentence sounds wrong to me. That's probably the tip of the iceberg. lol