{"id":1050,"date":"2016-10-24T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2016-12-30T21:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T21:58:41","slug":"cover-letters-yes-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/cover-letters-yes-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Letters: Yes or No?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"large-lede-content\">\n<p class=\"lede-headline\"><em>We are often asked by job seekers whether they should craft and send a cover letter. Even after reading this article, we still can&#8217;t say for sure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"lede-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"lede-headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-28\/the-cover-letter-refuses-to-die\"><span class=\"lede-headline__highlighted\">The Cover Letter Refuses to Die<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"lede-dek\">by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/ASQHC-qugfo\/rebecca-greenfield\">Rebecca Greenfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"lede-dek\"><em><span class=\"lede-dek__text\">Some hiring managers love &#8217;em, others ignore &#8217;em.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"lede-dek\">Depending on whom you ask, the cover letter is either an indispensable part of a job application or a total waste of time. We spoke\u00a0to five hiring managers for a recent episode of the <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.com\/gameplan%20\" target=\"_blank\">Game Plan<\/a> podcast, and each had a different take on its\u00a0relative importance\u2013as if the hiring process weren&#8217;t stressful enough already. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-28\/the-cover-letter-refuses-to-die\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are often asked by job seekers whether they should craft and send a cover letter. Even after reading this article, we still can&#8217;t say for sure. The Cover Letter Refuses to Die by Rebecca Greenfield Some hiring managers love &#8217;em, others ignore &#8217;em. Depending on whom you ask, the cover letter is either an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,18],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-job-search","tag-resume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}