Jobs Magazine December 26, 2014 – January 1, 2015 | Page 9

JOBS RESOURCES
one, you have to rise to the challenge
and find a new way to sell yourself.
Hiring managers take this type of creativity as a good sign when they see it.
At the same time, they get a concept of
your general communication skills based
on your spelling, formatting, grammar,
punctuation and other elements such
as your syntax and conciseness. These
kinds of factors are critical to business
interactions and, therefore, are seen as
extremely valuable.

DRAWBACKS

YOU MIGHT WASTE YOUR TIME.

In the increasingly competitive economy, resume reviewers are flooded with
more applications than they can handle
in many cases. They are under serious
time constraints and, subsequently, often
end up scanning cover letters even if they
would like to give them more attention.
Some don’t even read the resume at all,
tossing it aside or sending it through a
computer scanner. They know that the
letters can convey useful details and
information, but their primary concern
is ultimately just to find applicants with
the right skills and experience, and those
facts are supposed to be in the resume
anyway. They assume the hiring manager will screen the applicant pool for “feel”
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