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robminds:
Cover letters seriously improve your chances of been taken.
But many online applicants think recruiters read their cover letters. Unfortunately the truth is that more than 98% of recruiters dont especially for the ones sent through recruitment sites.

But there are some other category of people in the company who should read the cover letters. And you can facilitate their reading it by doing the following 5 things:
1. Don't apply online but email your resume to a recruiter or hiring manager instead.
2. Don't make it an actual "letter." Instead, make it the body of the email with your resume attached. When people attach a letter AND a resume to an email, let me just say only one attachment is getting opened, and it's always the resume. So don't even bother.

See Full Article:
http://www.robminds.com/2017/01/25/guess-think-recruiters-read-cover-letter-see-get-read/

kunleben1:
Don't mind this mumu hr who is rather happier throwing cvs to the bin. He is such a lazy one. I'm an advocate of a good cv but ds guys shd just stop painting it as if it's an end in itself.

1k001:
I see this post has gotten over 100 likes so it should be responded to.

First, let me preface this by saying I only ever employ young or fresh graduates. They are easier to train and eager to work, generally speaking.

When I refer to experience, I mean what did you do with your time when you didn't need to do anything. That is a key marker for a hard worker. For every fresh grad I employed, they either volunteered with their time or did a particular business. This needs to reflect in a CV. If it doesn't, those that reflect it in their CV will get the position before those that don't.

Regarding throwing CV's in the bin, that is just the reality, not pride or boasting. The main goal of a business is to make money, recruiting is a distraction, albeit a necessary one. So when I put up an ad for a position, and get over 100 CV's for one position, the fact is I don't have time. I need to find a way to quickly sort out the lazy and unserious people. The easiest way (not necessarily the most accurate) include some of the tips above. No recruiter will go through 100 CV's in depth just for one position. Recruiting is by its nature discriminatory as not everyone will end up with the job.

As regard potential, I'm open to cultivating promising people. However, if a CV cannot simply demonstrate why I should put the effort into them then why should I bother. I'm not their mother or father who is supposed to encourage them at every turn. A CV is the first step, then of course, there's an interview which is even more important. A CV, however, is the first impression, it needs to count otherwise no hope of an interview. No recruiter will interview 100 people for one position.

Even after a great hiring process, an employee may not deliver. It is always hard to predict who will. The CV, interview process is annoying and discriminatory but it's the best we have so everyone needs to learn how to optimize it for themselves. The purpose of writing this post in the first place was to help people be better. Many recruiters don't give feedback, I've tried to. Let who finds it useful use it accordingly.

MChaze25:
not everyone co-habits like you do pls

kilonso001:
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bullabong:
Its Godwin Efulefu Emefiele.

nwakibie3:
Everyday we dey see dos and Donts of the resume. So which way una wan make we write the Cv naa I don tire for all these CV Mata abeg