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Subject:Re: Resumes for Technical Communicators From:Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 10 Mar 1995 15:13:00 PST
At 2:42 PM 3/10/95 -0500, Herman Holtz wrote:
>In my opinion, a cover letter is a waste of time. If you have something
>more to say, why did you not say it in your resume and refrain from
>wasting a busy executive's time reading yet another piece of paper? (As
>that busy exective with a desktopful of resumes, that was my reaction.)
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IMHO the resume should be customized for a particular *type or level* of
job; (you might have different resumes for doc manager and tech writier
positions), but, the cover letter is where you customize the package for
that particular job.
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