[Esras]

I appreciate what you're going through, I've hired for a wide range of roles and gotten everything from complete garbage and no cover letter to cover letters that were obviously ghost-written to resumes 7 pages long with no meaningful content.

The thing that helped me most was to try to put in as much effort as the sender did - if they just used an autofilled-ChatGPT letter? Send them a one-line no thanks. It doesn't have to be much. If you want to just go through the resume anyway, you don't even have to read the cover letter.

But so many engineers have also been beaten down by the applicant tracking systems that have come before. All sorts of things to get in front of a recruiter so that they aren't filtered out. I've watched recruiters throw away applicants because they didn't understand why their resume was neat and tidy and watched other applicants get pushed through simply because they filled out 4 pages of everything they've ever possibly done.

It's hard to blame people when the signal they get back from applying is so poor.

[FireBeyond]

> The thing that helped me most was to try to put in as much effort as the sender did - if they just used an autofilled-ChatGPT letter? Send them a one-line no thanks.

This alone puts you in the ninetieth percentile. Most employers won't even bother with that.