Hey guys if you're spending time a ghen icing over writing a cover letter or you're contemplating paying someone else to write a cover letter for you good news. You can stop worrying and you can pocket. That cash and I can tell. You why in this video. You like my content please like. You have any comments please comment below and if. You like my overall content please subscribe so. I want to really cover five topics in this video. One we're really gonna cover just quickly the history we're gonna cover your resume we're gonna cover the process we're gonna cover recruiters and hiring managers and lastly quickly.
You need to how to write a short and great cover letter item. One understanding the historical context so it's really important to understand why cover letters existed in the past and it was a way for employers to really find out about you beyond the resume well. We have the internet. Now and that's why the cover letter is really becoming unnecessary so. If they want to find out. Any additional information about you they can find it in that place and most likely place for employers is LinkedIn so I'll add a card up above make sure. That you have a fantastic LinkedIn profile that's telling an additional story item to your resume so in many cases. Either have the skills or you don't for the job and so naturally candidates may think.
That recruiters or hiring managers will. Either start with a cover letter or go to the cover letter second after. They like the resume but the reality is is that. If they see good aspects in the resume they're just gonna move forward to that next step and so again. This is a great opportunity for you to really work on the summary section and again I'll link. That in the card up above item three. This is probably the most important. One and this is really knowing your audience and the reasons why recruiters and hiring managers don't read cover letters and so.
I wanted to go through. Some simple math. I know that this exercise may seem ridiculous but I think. It helps give context to why they're not being read so let's say let's flashback to last here let's say I'm still at Google and I get a new position. That I post with a hiring manager I'm gonna get at least 200 applications that's a really low-balled number but let's say. I get 200 applications and I spent in one minute reading each cover letter that's almost three and a half hours reading cover letters for one position let's say. I was working on five total positions and those additional other positions were receiving about 50 applications a day that's almost seven hours of reading cover letters with just.
One minute per cover letter it's just not realistic and that's one of the reasons why I really like to bring up. This example. If you're a recruiter at a smaller company chances are you're gonna get less applications but that recruiter is going to have. More jobs that they're handling so again. I feel like. That math is is really really important for candidates to understand and then. We flip it over to a hiring manager just understand. That that hiring manager is filling that role.
You need to how to write a short and great cover letter item. One understanding the historical context so it's really important to understand why cover letters existed in the past and it was a way for employers to really find out about you beyond the resume well. We have the internet. Now and that's why the cover letter is really becoming unnecessary so. If they want to find out. Any additional information about you they can find it in that place and most likely place for employers is LinkedIn so I'll add a card up above make sure. That you have a fantastic LinkedIn profile that's telling an additional story item to your resume so in many cases. Either have the skills or you don't for the job and so naturally candidates may think.
That recruiters or hiring managers will. Either start with a cover letter or go to the cover letter second after. They like the resume but the reality is is that. If they see good aspects in the resume they're just gonna move forward to that next step and so again. This is a great opportunity for you to really work on the summary section and again I'll link. That in the card up above item three. This is probably the most important. One and this is really knowing your audience and the reasons why recruiters and hiring managers don't read cover letters and so.
I wanted to go through. Some simple math. I know that this exercise may seem ridiculous but I think. It helps give context to why they're not being read so let's say let's flashback to last here let's say I'm still at Google and I get a new position. That I post with a hiring manager I'm gonna get at least 200 applications that's a really low-balled number but let's say. I get 200 applications and I spent in one minute reading each cover letter that's almost three and a half hours reading cover letters for one position let's say. I was working on five total positions and those additional other positions were receiving about 50 applications a day that's almost seven hours of reading cover letters with just.
One minute per cover letter it's just not realistic and that's one of the reasons why I really like to bring up. This example. If you're a recruiter at a smaller company chances are you're gonna get less applications but that recruiter is going to have. More jobs that they're handling so again. I feel like. That math is is really really important for candidates to understand and then. We flip it over to a hiring manager just understand. That that hiring manager is filling that role.
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