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Subject:Re: Testing From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 8 Mar 1995 10:37:21 -0800
Rick Lippincott said:
> For example, Sunday morning I see an ad in the paper.
> My resume is ready. I carefully craft a cover letter directed towards the
> company, and it can go off into the mail Monday morning. (If there's a fax
> number, I can fax modem it in Sunday night from home.)
1) Did you find your current job through an ad?! Conventional wisdom
is that this is the worst way to find a job.
2) How do slant it towards the company if you don't already know the
company? (This is a serious question: I live in Silicon Valley,
and there are a LOT of companies, big and small. Some of them I can
look up, but not all of them are listed in various sources available
to me.)
3) Most of the job ads in the San Jose Mercury News don't list a
company name. So how do you slant your letter in those cases?
> My personal feeling is that a person who can't manage to write a cover
> letter might want to think about a career other than tech writing.
