Cover letters are one of the few things I’ve found AI is decent at producing. I give it my resume, the job description, and tell it to write of a cover letter based on those. The employer will most likely skim it or not read it at all, so it doesn’t need to be super detailed. Of course, make sure to double-check it for hallucinations.
Of course, make sure to double-check it for hallucinations.
I’ve been mucking about with a local instance of llama
1st weekend, i got it ruining. i pointed it at the oxygen not included wiki, and asked it a few questions. A couple of weeks later, I pointed it at my linked in prifile, which needed updated. I told it my new job title and to write a new summary
About half way down, it had
<job title> | Oxygen not included aficionado
🤣
I can tell you, as a hiring manager I never once looked at a cover letter. Let me see what your resume tells about you.
As a manager that has to do dozens of performance reviews, stop using AI to write your self eval. You used to give me a bulleted list that was quick and human readable. Im gonna start putting character limits on them because all AI is doing is wasting my time
Then do that, don’t whine that people are using technology to save time on a pointless activity that doesn’t benefit them.
It could be argued that getting a job because your resume isn’t terrible is a benefit?
Just get an AI to summarise it for you. Circle of life.
Nah. You don’t need a cover letter.
in my experience it literally doesn’t matter whether you include one or not
It didnt matter when hunans read applications, now, its an effort filter and an auto-reject if you dont make the computer happy.
