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LinkedIn has Easy Apply or Quick Apply, I forget the name. The shotgun approach is best and I relied heavily on quantity over quality. Why write a cover letter for a job when I can apply to 10 others without that requirement?
This is the correct way to do it. Even when I was hiring, I much preferred opening Quick Apply positions. I don't want to waste your time either (and I sure as hell am not reading cover letters)
This is oddly comforting. So many websites and opinion articles push the idea of painstakingly tailoring a resume, then hunting down the listing on the website and re-filling in that same resume twice.
On top of that they make you feel like youβre the problem when that doesnβt work and youβve wasted three hours of your time to maybe get rejected six weeks later.
Thank you for being honest. This will save a lot of time and stress going forward. /gen
Depends on the type of job. In my industry you'd be lucky to find more than 10 job openings in the whole country per month. You bet you want to tailor the everything out of the resume and cover letters.
For basic jobs like retail, you can apply with AI written slop and nobody will notice. All they need to know is your availability.
My problem with that is that Google has a fucking mind all its own and will automatically file whatever the hell it feels like as spam, and I have no clue how to change those options, especially when I have no idea what server to expect an interview schedule email to even come from.
For what it's worth, I've never once had an interview request or professional email go to spam on Google mail. Not once in like 15 years.
Thank you for the useless information. My Google account is over 20 years old, back when GMail was still in beta testing.
How the fuck do you change the spam filter options?
Why would I tell you after you posted such a dickhead reply?
Because your 'information' is completely useless and doesn't provide any answer to my question.
Apparently Google doesn't even have an answer or solution to the question either.
I'm not fucking stupid, I actually do know how to research things...
https://support.google.com/mail/thread/15558865/how-can-i-turn-off-gmail-filtering-completely-i-can-t-access-all-the-misfiled-spam?hl=en
Ok cool man. Enjoy continuing to miss interviews I guess. Cya.
Cya - Dave Mirra
Yeah, I'm a BMX rider too, bicycle and vehicle technician as well.
I don't really need an online application anyways, especially if the response is gonna be auto-filed in the trash.
Fuck Google, fuck AI. Thus far, I've gotten more regular work by just showing up in person and showing I know how to turn a wrench and get my hands dirty.