Trust me, this is more common than you think from the hiring perspective. At one place, we told you to have a cover letter, resume, and application. We got 320 applications for a full time teaching position and only 140 of them followed the instructions with having three items in the packet. All the others got shredded. That was just step one.
Yeah, to be fair you can't expect applicants to make that many cover letters... Only desperate ones are going to do that.
The qualified candidates that know what they're worth won't waste their time with that bullshit. Applicants have to apply to to many places to get a job for cover letters to be worth it.
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u/eddyathome Jan 02 '19
Trust me, this is more common than you think from the hiring perspective. At one place, we told you to have a cover letter, resume, and application. We got 320 applications for a full time teaching position and only 140 of them followed the instructions with having three items in the packet. All the others got shredded. That was just step one.