Send Fewer Cover Letters To Find Your Next Job Faster

Job seekers generally don't like writing cover letters.

The only reason why you use them is because you've gotten advice to include them with your resume.

But what if you learned that sending fewer cover letters would help you find your next job faster?

Since the invention of the typewriter, the standard advice given by outplacement, most career coaches and authors has been to include cover letters with your resume. But in 2022, Cover letters are an obsolete tradition and bad advice that eliminates you from consideration much of the time, even when you're qualified.

Here are two reasons that sending fewer cover letters will help you get your next job faster:

1. They Don't Help Your Resume Get Seen: Most Applicant Tracking Systems are set up to only keyword search one document (your resume), according to executives from the top ATS companies. So every word you put on your cover letter isn't being keyword searched, and isn't helping your resume get seen.
2. They Distract Your Reader, Who Doesn't Believe Them: In numerous recent studies, over 95% of hiring managers/recruiters/HR reps say that they don't believe cover letters. Instead, they believe your resume contains your features and benefits. Your readers decide whether to give you an interview (or the discard pile) in an average 15 seconds, but 15 seconds is too short to read both documents. So if you give your reader a choice between your resume and cover letter, too many readers choose the document they don't believe, distracting them from your resume and moving on to the next candidate.

You may first be breathing a sigh of relief, because you didn't want to write cover letters anyways. But then you start to think ... "What do I do when a cover letter is required, required by an ATS, or I'm sending via email - What then?"

There are far more effective ways to address these issues - Let me show you.

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