“Do I really need to take the time to write another one?” he asked me. I called him and said, I think you sent me the wrong cover letter, no worries, it happens! But if you still want to apply for this job, you should send me another letter. This was not a case of forgetting to change the name in the cover letter, it was a full-on ode to the Boy Scouts, clearly intended for someone else. Trouble was, the job I was hiring for was not with the Boy Scouts. True story: I once got a cover letter with a passionate argument for why I should hire this candidate to raise money for the Boy Scouts, due to the impact they’d had on him throughout his life. Are you bored yet? I am! And when you read dozens of cover letters in a single week as I often do, it quickly becomes clear that in many cases the writer is just as bored as I am.
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