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UnfrozenCaveman
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Cover letters for experienced attorney
What’s everyone’s take on cover letters when they are optional, you’re a senior associate and your resume sort of speaks for itself (meaning it matches perfectly with the job description)?
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Re: Cover letters for experienced attorney
Why wouldn't you include one to explain why you want to work for X firm or in Y City? Yeah you'll probably get a request to interview either way, but it seems like this is low-hanging fruit to start building the narrative for why they should hire you specifically and not another senior associate with similar credentials.UnfrozenCaveman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 4:33 pmWhat’s everyone’s take on cover letters when they are optional, you’re a senior associate and your resume sort of speaks for itself (meaning it matches perfectly with the job description)?
I don't know. Maybe I'm overthinking this.
whoops did it again -- Fireworks2016 here
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Re: Cover letters for experienced attorney
For the hiring I’ve been part of, people always want to see why someone wants the job, which means they want to see a cover letter. It’s not like OCI where cover letters are kind of superfluous given the whole OCI machine.
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UnfrozenCaveman
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Re: Cover letters for experienced attorney
The issue is that I need the time I'm not billing hours to browse TLS, not craft cover letters.
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Fireworks2016
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Re: Cover letters for experienced attorney
It shouldn't be more than what, a .3 to draft and proof a basic cover letter? Buck up, my friend.UnfrozenCaveman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 7:55 pmThe issue is that I need the time I'm not billing hours to browse TLS, not craft cover letters.
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