[jll29]

Cover letters are for those that send in applications.

Successful people network instead; don´t be part of the PDF pile, work around it!

[kps]

That way, you hire people who are good at networking, and/or gaming the system, rather than people that are good at the work you're hiring for.

This adequately explains one or more places I've worked.

[supertrope]

Life can be modeled as a series of skinner boxes and markets. If a rat had a way of significantly increasing the probability of getting food versus pressing the bar it would.

[Spivak]

Actually incredibly true. I’m batting 1000 over my entire career because of it. I hear about jobs from people I know, get in contact with the team / hiring manager directly. By the time I’m actually emailing a PDF of my resume it’s already a formality.

I’ve gotten hired twice for positions that didn’t even exist when I started the process. Let me tell you it’s real easy when there are no other applicants.