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<<What do you use as a greeting in the cover letters you enclose with
your resumes? Nothing I've tried lately feels just right, including
the following:>>
I understand the problem; I'm anything but *PC*, but I also don't go out of
my way to hurt other people's sensibilities. The way that I've handled it
is to use no salutation at all, even I have a name to whose attention I'm
sending the letter. So my form looks something like this:
[Date]
[Company Name]
[Street]
[City, State Zip]
[Body]
etc.
If I have a name, the form looks like this:
[Date]
[Company Name]
[Street]
[City, State Zip]
Attention: [Contact Name]
[Body]
etc.
Everybody's different, but this works for me. <g>
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