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Especially with the rise of "ghost postings" so quantity over quality is greater than ever these days

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This may be Australia specific, but do job postings not spell out what they want in other countries?

Like, job postings in Australia (these days) are: this is the job, here are the key selection criteria, please provide us a resume and cover letter (or just a resume, or cover letter optional, etc). Even down to maximum number of pages sometimes.

They just tell you, and part of the way they weed people out is if they fail to follow what's written (simple way to weed out anyone paying no attention).

Do other countries just have to GUESS what the recruitment managers want at each company?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Only about 3 out of 10 jobs I have applied for stipulated a cover letter and those 3 were trying to appear bigger than they were in other ways

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I don't think I've crafted a cover letter since we stopped sending resumes via snail mail.