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    10 months ago

    I’m writing a cover letter for the first time in 7 years (got my last job through contacts and personally introducing myself).

    This is so tedious and frustrating. I keep writing “I bring…” and it ends up sounding like “I bring tales of adventure, stories of wisdom, and the skillset of a wizard” or something stupid like that.

    I’m also trying real hard not to start a paragraph dissing myself with “While I have an unconventional background in…” - like, don’t lead with negatives. hard habit to break

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      10 months ago

      ‘My mettle is unsurpassed and my commitment to making you more money means that you will get more money’.

      I used that once. Didn’t work though :(

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      10 months ago

      The best and most effective cover letter I ever wrote went like this : “This job sounds interesting. I think I can do it well.” That was all I wrote. Got a call back within 15 minutes.

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        My first ‘real’ job letter took 24hr and a bottle of vodka. Worked though 😺

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      10 months ago

      The skill set of a wizard is awesome. Unless of course you are applying to be a murder hobo.

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      10 months ago

      i’m getting started on that in a few weeks for the first time in over ten years. will enlist chatGPT for help.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah idk why I didn’t just do that from the start. So much of it is guff anyway

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      10 months ago

      If someone said something original and genuinely entertaining like “I bring tales of adventure, stories of wisdom, and the skillset of a wizard” I’d give them a job!

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        10 months ago

        😭 I wish I had a radar for detecting which people reviewing job apps would have enough of a sense of humour because I’d have os much more fun writing that.