Re: Resumes for Technical Communicators

Subject: Re: Resumes for Technical Communicators
From: Robert Plamondon <robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 13:49:33 PST

>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.)

Well, there are a lot of ways to play this game. It's often easier to
give your pitch in the cover letter than in the resume. If you do
a good job, the resume will not actually be read, but the manager has
a warm feeling from knowing that he has it in his file should he
ever wish to read it.

-- Robert


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