????求職信該謝幕了嗎？

????求職信的境遇如此糟糕,，羅森堡已經(jīng)建議客戶(hù)完全放棄求職信,，轉(zhuǎn)而專(zhuān)注于定制簡(jiǎn)歷。他說(shuō)：“在現(xiàn)在的招聘流程下,，申請(qǐng)人應(yīng)該針對(duì)每個(gè)工作機(jī)會(huì),、每家公司、每位招聘經(jīng)理都量身定做一份簡(jiǎn)歷,?！?/p>

????我們當(dāng)然不能責(zé)備應(yīng)聘者按牌理出牌，但我們是不是已經(jīng)做好了準(zhǔn)備,，完全拋棄簡(jiǎn)歷的這位老朋友呢,？我們還是需要一個(gè)自我介紹推銷(xiāo)長(zhǎng)處的工具。幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來(lái),，我們一直都是這么干的,。就連達(dá)芬奇都曾使用某種形式的求職信向米蘭公爵推銷(xiāo)自己的服務(wù),。雖然人們將它稱(chēng)為史上第一份簡(jiǎn)歷，但它其實(shí)更像是一封求職信,，或者可以說(shuō)是自我介紹信,。履歷和簡(jiǎn)歷體現(xiàn)的是求職者工作技能和成就的具體細(xì)節(jié)，很可能就是從求職信演化過(guò)來(lái)的,。

????簡(jiǎn)歷分析網(wǎng)站RezScore的共同創(chuàng)始人肖恩?溫伯格指出,，雖然很難確定求職信和簡(jiǎn)歷什么時(shí)候開(kāi)始分離，但大概的時(shí)間是在20世紀(jì)早期,?！斑@是一個(gè)緩慢演化的過(guò)程。我們現(xiàn)在所知的求職信是和簡(jiǎn)歷平行發(fā)展起來(lái)的,?！保ㄔ摴景l(fā)布了一幅精彩的介紹簡(jiǎn)歷歷史的信息圖表）。

????求職信無(wú)能為力

????不需要高水平口頭和書(shū)面語(yǔ)言能力的職位不會(huì)十分重視求職信,。在線(xiàn)學(xué)習(xí)公司Knewton的首席運(yùn)營(yíng)官戴維?劉負(fù)責(zé)公司的招聘戰(zhàn)略,。他不看重求職信：“現(xiàn)在我們招聘工程師和商務(wù)人員的比例是20:1。招聘軟件開(kāi)發(fā)和工程人員時(shí),，我們不在乎你文筆有多好,。我們只看重你的編程和系統(tǒng)設(shè)計(jì)能力?！?/p>

????劉說(shuō)他們通過(guò)察看作品集,、編程測(cè)試和對(duì)話(huà)來(lái)了解申請(qǐng)人，了解他們的實(shí)際工作成果,?！俺乔舐毿砰L(zhǎng)達(dá)8頁(yè)，否則根本不可能了解到足夠多的細(xì)節(jié),?！?/p>

????劉認(rèn)為，通過(guò)推薦人或其他方式聯(lián)系雇主的簡(jiǎn)歷會(huì)比任何求職信都好,?！伴]著眼發(fā)送求職信絕對(duì)過(guò)時(shí)了，”他說(shuō),?！暗孟敕ㄕJ(rèn)識(shí)公司內(nèi)部人員，找到見(jiàn)面機(jī)會(huì),。總有辦法找到誰(shuí)在那里工作,，打聽(tīng)到他們的年資和工作職位,?！?/p>

????Is it curtains for the cover letter?

????Things have gotten so bad for the cover letter that Rosenberg has started advising clients to put their effort into customizing their resumes and forget the cover letter entirely. "The process is set up to reward candidates that heavily customize their resumes for each individual opportunity, company, and hiring manager," he says.

????While you can't blame candidates for playing into the system, are we really prepared to abandon the resume's longtime companion altogether? We'll always need a tool to introduce ourselves and sell folks on our best qualities. We've been doing it for centuries. Even Leonardo da Vinci used a cover letter of sorts to pitch his services to the Duke of Milan. Although this has been called the first resume, it's really more of a cover letter, or what probably would have been referred to as a letter of introduction. It's likely that the curriculum vitae (CV) and resume evolved from the cover letter as a more nuts and bolts presentation of a candidate's skills and accomplishments.

????It's hard to say when the cover letter and resume emerged as separate entities, says Sean Weinberg, co-founder of RezScore, an online resume analyzer, but he places it somewhere in the early twentieth century. "It's been a slow evolution. The cover letter as we know it has evolved in parallel with the resume." (His company published a nifty infographic on the history of the resume.).

????When a letter just doesn't cut it

????Job openings that don't require a high level of verbal and written skills place less emphasis on the cover letter. As COO of Knewton, an online learning company, David Liu oversees the company's recruiting strategy, and he does not put much stock in the cover letter. "We're hiring engineers to business people 20-to-one right now. When we're looking for people in the areas of software development and engineering, we're not really looking to see how well you write prose. We're looking to see how well you code and how well you can design a system."

????Liu says they get to know candidates by looking at their portfolios, through coding tests, and in conversations so that they can understand what they've actually accomplished. "With cover letters, you can't really get into a lot of detail without it getting blown into an eight-page document."

????Liu argues that a resume with a referral or approaching employers through another context would work better than any cover letter. "Just sending in a blind cover letter is absolutely dated," he says. "You need to figure out a way to identify with the folks that are in those companies. There are meetups. There are ways to find out who's working there, for how long, and what they do."