How do you feel about cover letters? Whenever I'm applying for a job, it's the thing I find the most annoying. So now that I'm writing a job ad for an opening at our studio, I'm considering making them optional. Thoughts?pic.twitter.com/e7jkMqDyAB
Game designer at @romerogamesltd , @imirt_ie board member and mentor at @TabletopMentor.
Designing videogames by day and boardgames by night. He/Him
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How do you feel about cover letters? Whenever I'm applying for a job, it's the thing I find the most annoying. So now that I'm writing a job ad for an opening at our studio, I'm considering making them optional. Thoughts?pic.twitter.com/e7jkMqDyAB
To expand on why I hate cover letters: it takes a lot of time to write one and it doesn't really say anything about a person's ability to do the job. All it says (at best) is that the applicant is good at writing cover letters / make up some bullshit.
The way I see it, making the application process as fast and simple as possible is a form of respect towards the applicants — I don't want dozens of people to spend their time on this when we can only hire one of them
Related rant for another time: award submissions which require very specific materials (e.g. graphic assets or texts) and take hours to prepare 
Don't like them and I think they're deliberate to filter the amount of candidates that "really want the role/award".
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