[HN Gopher] Show HN: Resumine, a smart way to generate custom co...
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Show HN: Resumine, a smart way to generate custom cover letters
I co-created, with two friends, a friendly website that empowers
anybody to generate custom cover letters to any job position. The
workflow is simple yet efficient: 1. Copy and paste only once your
professional background 2. Copy and paste a job description you
would like to generate a cover letter to. 3. Select the theme 3.1.
Professional and Formal 3.2. Creative and Innovative 3.3.
Enthusiastic and Energetic That's it, you get a tailored cover
letter which is stored online and can be edited at any time. We
believe in a freemium approach, for which only users with extensive
usage would become a customer. It took us +6 months of work as
dedicated to this as a side project. We are aware there are similar
tools published in the last months, but we didn't want to give up
because of this as we believe in competition. We are glad to
invite you all to try Resumine out and help us understand your
thoughts and where can we focus to build a better service.
Author : resumine
Score : 11 points
Date : 2023-07-13 17:02 UTC (6 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (resumine.io)
| joshSzep wrote:
| Does anyone read cover letters?
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| The practice originated from when we printed out resumes and
| literally needed a sheet of paper to cover a resume for privacy
| purposes. In modern times I am never printing resumes; they are
| just a PDF on my computer.
| yunwal wrote:
| It seems like in practice it's basically used as a filter for
| resume spammers. If the cover letter is required then it means
| the person was willing to spend 20 mins of their day applying
| for this specific job, which is a bit too expensive for people
| applying to hundreds of jobs and seeing what lands
| arp242 wrote:
| I've been hired and the quality of my cover letter was
| specifically cited as a reason (also later confirmed by the HR
| lady who tried to hit me up when she was really drunk, when she
| kept banging on about it for some reason, but that's a
| different story).
|
| So _some_ are reading them at least, n=1 etc. I usually use
| them to supplement my CV, by pointing out things that are
| relevant for this specific position, or listing things that
| aren 't on the CV (and usually shouldn't be on the CV) but
| still relevant, like a specific open source project I
| contributed to, or something from my personal life that
| relates.
| biugbkifcjk wrote:
| I'll never trust these services, you already collect enough
| information by visiting the site and then want people to upload
| their entire employment history.
|
| Unless I can run it entirely locally, with no internet, that'll
| always be a hard pass from me.
| vemv wrote:
| I would go as far as saying that attaching a generic, AI-ish
| cover letter is a) disrespectful and b) far worse than attaching
| no cover latter at all.
|
| It's disrespectful because it's essentially a fake/empty message
| (often a regurgitation of the CV) and a bet that the receiving
| side will be dumb enough not to notice.
|
| I occasinally use cover letters to highlight super specific
| things that called my attention or that make me a particularly
| well-suited candidate.
| DANmode wrote:
| I used to agree wholly, until I began reading accounts from
| hiring managers who don't read a single fucking word of a
| single cover letter - with AI or otherwise.
|
| Really burned me up.
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