Cover Letters – Creativity for results
Cover Letters – Creativity for results
A question was asked recently on Linkedin about whether you should send out naked CVs (send CVs without cover letters). Below is part of my response. By the way – If you are sending application after application with no response perhaps you should try a creative approach like the below example. Put it like this – if you are not getting positive results you have nothing to lose 
QUESTION
You don’t send out naked resumes without cover letters do you?
MY REPLY
Yes you do send out naked CVs without a cover letter if I am the decision-maker. Writing a cover letter would be wasting your time as I never read them. Stopped reading cover letters years back as I was sick of reading the same old stuff.
Now if you were a creative job hunter and tried this approach then I would read your cover letter……
1. Write out your cover letter.
2. Crumple the page into a ball.
3. Open it back up, fold it and place it in the envelope with your CV.
4. Post and wait.
5. Reader receives the envelope and opens it while drinking a coffee
6. Crumpled page – what is going on here?
7. Reader is intrigued and opens the cover letter and begins to read.
8. Dear Paul, I took the liberty to crumple up this page to save you time when throwing it into the bin.
9. Reader laughs out loud before picking up the phone to set up an interview.
Tags: Advice, Cover Letter Tips, Letter, Tips
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:47 am
Love it
I used to work as an HR Manager, and although I never totally gave up reading cover letters like you, they did only ever get skimmed!
I was thinking recently of an idea for a cover letter- written in crayon in large multi coloured letters “Pick Me, Pick Me!” but I think yours tops that!