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It may be worth your time to make the cover letter at least a *little* specific, even if that's just writing a bit about why the company excites you, what drove you to apply, etc.
Ridiculous as it seems, for some internship positions that's a pretty automatic filter - your application will likely go in the bin if they think you've just copied / pasted it 100 times over. -
@AlmondSauce huh, I’ll keep that in mind.
My cover letter is basically a little intro about me and then some info about a web app that I created.
I’ve been applying to mostly front end and web dev internships mainly so I thought it would be ok if I “copy/pasted” it
I’ll definitely look into making some different cover letters tho, it can’t hurt
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I’ve been trying to work smarter and not harder.
I’ve been applying to internships with my cover letter and resume.
My cover letter is pretty generic so I only need to change the company name and company position for each application.
Used to do this all manually through google docs but I just wrote a cool script
Using bash, I ask for the company name and position, and then I just generate and compile a latex version of my cover letter with those parameters updated.
Then, the pdf of my cover letter is combined with the pdf of my resume.
After that, the pdf of my application goes into a directory in my career folder so I have a record of it.
This has saved me so much time lol I’m happy I took the time to figure this out
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