Talk:Find Employment/Cover Letters

Cover Letters read after Resumes
Whenever I have taught about resumes in my vocational computer class for adults, I always ask if any of my students have done hiring previously, and I try to obtain feedback from them to make sure that I am teaching correct information, since truly every business does the hiring process differently. One common trend I found from them, and from my own past experience in hiring people is that usually the resume is read first and then the cover letter. I think this needs to be included in this article. I'm only putting it here for discussion, because I know this goes against "traditional wisdom". But it makes sense that most people hiring read resumes, because they need to take a stack of potential employees, and quickly filter them, and the resume is the place that they look for key attributes that they know they want, and then after they have filtered out those who don't have those attributes, they start to look at the resume deeper, and then ultimately the cover letter. If anyone wishes to make an argument, or has had different experience, please speak up. If I don't get any counter opinions, I'll be bold and post my ideas. --Jacob Walker (talk) 04:55, 2 February 2008 (UTC)