{"id":886,"date":"2016-02-26T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/?p=886"},"modified":"2016-02-19T16:51:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T16:51:21","slug":"dreadedcoverletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/dreadedcoverletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Dreaded Cover Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Owen&#8217;s Chief Recruiting Officer, Tami Fassinger, offers her thoughts on cover letters. She gives some great tips in her blog post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/tamifassinger\/are-you-covered-by-your-cover-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are You Covered By Your Cover Letter? <\/a>By <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/tamifassinger\/about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tami Fassinger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just read an article from Bloomberg that claimed just 18 percent of employers care about cover letters. Well I\u2019ve received literally thousands of resumes and cover letters as a corporate recruiter, and let me tell you, they <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/tamifassinger\/are-you-covered-by-your-cover-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen&#8217;s Chief Recruiting Officer, Tami Fassinger, offers her thoughts on cover letters. She gives some great tips in her blog post: Are You Covered By Your Cover Letter? By Tami Fassinger I just read an article from Bloomberg that claimed just 18 percent of employers care about cover letters. Well I\u2019ve received literally thousands of [&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],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-job-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}