Top 5 things not to do in your cover letter when applying for a job:
5. Mention the hospital bills you have to pay after your recent sexual reassignment surgery.
4. Start every sentence with "I."
3. Talk about how you really don't need a job that bad, but you're applying anyway, as if it was a legitimate reverse psychology tactic.
2. Misspell something or confuse "your" and "you're" while purporting to be an editor.
1. Forget to include the attached resume, only to send a second e-mail saying "Oops! I forgot to attach my resume!" That's foreshadowing a crappy employee.
4 comments:
I sincerely hope that you are not speaking from experience... ;-)
None of these are from experience, but I did review applications for guest columnist spots at my former job. Many of these did happen.
Perhaps you could somehow combine #1 and #2. Something about having to pay for your gender reassignment surgery, and then constantly referring to yourself in the third person as "he/she".
Hired!
Haha, I was wondering if you did number 5, but I see you did not.
I've done number 1 before! After I said I was detail-oriented!
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