Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100320:17:38:00
What is this person doing wrong? >> what this person is doing is what everybody -- and virtually every single person who puts a cover letter together. it's long and boring. i equate it to the back side of a pharmaceutical ad in a magazine. do you read those? >> no. >> no, but you have to have them. >> i have read them, but i guess that's not the point, right? the hiring manager won't do it. >> we're not going to read them. the fact is if someone's spending 10, 15 seconds on your resumé, they won't spend three minutes reading what's essentially a sentence version of the resumé. four paragraph...
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