Comments on: An odd new trend in cover letters? http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/11/23/an-odd-new-trend-in-cover-letters/ Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Development Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:17:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The racial gap in the job hunt | Working World http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/11/23/an-odd-new-trend-in-cover-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-798 The racial gap in the job hunt | Working World Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:39:01 +0000 http://workingworldcareers.com/?p=2028#comment-798 [...] “foreign” manner in which their resume or cover letter is put together, etc. (Does my recent rant about “odd” cover letter salutations fall into this category? Seems like it easily [...] [...] “foreign” manner in which their resume or cover letter is put together, etc. (Does my recent rant about “odd” cover letter salutations fall into this category? Seems like it easily [...]

]]> By: Mark Overmann http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/11/23/an-odd-new-trend-in-cover-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-723 Mark Overmann Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:22:34 +0000 http://workingworldcareers.com/?p=2028#comment-723 Good point, Matt, thanks. This post was really just a reaction to something that struck me as odd at a particular moment (perhaps I was cranky?). It's entirely possible (or probable) that I'm reading far too much into what is really not a big deal. I guess getting the salutation "right" in your cover letter is important (though who's to say what's "right"?), but certainly working to make the actual body of the letter excellent is what you should really be aiming for. Anyway.... Any other reactions to my perhaps hasty and ill-informed reaction to those who use full names in a cover letter salutation? Other cover letter quirks that people have noticed? Good point, Matt, thanks. This post was really just a reaction to something that struck me as odd at a particular moment (perhaps I was cranky?). It’s entirely possible (or probable) that I’m reading far too much into what is really not a big deal. I guess getting the salutation “right” in your cover letter is important (though who’s to say what’s “right”?), but certainly working to make the actual body of the letter excellent is what you should really be aiming for. Anyway….

Any other reactions to my perhaps hasty and ill-informed reaction to those who use full names in a cover letter salutation? Other cover letter quirks that people have noticed?

]]> By: Matt http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/11/23/an-odd-new-trend-in-cover-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-722 Matt Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:05:18 +0000 http://workingworldcareers.com/?p=2028#comment-722 Maybe a little culturally insensitive. In a lot of foreign languages and cultures (pretty much all of asia, for instance), the polite, formal way to do things is use someone's full name, particular in a salutation. Maybe a little culturally insensitive. In a lot of foreign languages and cultures (pretty much all of asia, for instance), the polite, formal way to do things is use someone’s full name, particular in a salutation.

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