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...Keep it short. Think of the person who's got twelve projects due in the next 48 hours. The boss comes in with a stack of 300 resumes and says, "Take a look at these, will you? Give me the list of finalists in the morning." While this may sound extreme, it illustrates the point: the average cover letter and resume really do only get 60 seconds of review. A long cover letter is laborious; a powerful and succinct cover letter encourages the reader to spend more time on the applicant's materials...
...know quite how the guys will stack up," Fish said. "We have five seniors from the group last year. So we'll have to wait...
...know quite how the guys will stack up," Fish said. "We have five seniors from the group last year. So we'll have to wait...
Just about every bar, restaurant and dining room table in Wichita has played reluctant host to an impassioned debate on abortion this summer. "It's going to take some time to regain a center of gravity," says Mayor Bob Knight, displaying a 6-in. stack of angry letters on his desk. "The passions and feelings are so deep, and the city of Wichita has been criticized by everybody...
After receiving his first stack of rejection slips in the mid-1970s, David Wong Louie made a painful change in the short stories he sent out: he stripped them of all traces of ethnic identity. "What I'd do is write in the first person about somebody like myself, but I wouldn't identify him as Chinese American," he says. "I was trying to satisfy my paranoia about what people wanted to read or what editors thought people wanted to read. And I didn't see anything out there to tell me differently...