I know this seems like a bad idea - everyone always says that you should make each cover letter individual and unique. Like a snowflake, but way less enjoyable for everyone involved (you know clouds just loove birthing snowflakes). But really inspired cover letters do not come from starting from scratch. I feel like there's a better way to break the boilerplate boredom of saying all of the things you're supposed to say. And I think it involves filling in the blanks - freeing oneself from making whole paragraphs that proclaim "hire me, I'm thoroughly competent at balancing real responsibilities with keeping my Google Reader count under control" - in oblique wording and confident tones and succinct, properly punctuated sentences - by narrowing the creativity down to occasional nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
I want to test this as a game, but I just tried writing a generic cover letter and the task immediately got the better of me. It was way too much like writing a real one. And that's what I should be doing right now.
I guess it's best to go with a generic one from a cover resume guide? Anyone want to find a good one and take out selected words?
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