Poll: Cover letters still important to employers - Boston Business Journal:

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Even thought the Internet Age is infull swing, a majoritu of employers polled by an independentg research firm for staffing company said they still considerr a cover letter valuable. Some 23 percent said a cover letter accompanying a resume was very while 63 percent said it was somewhat valuablew and 14 percent said it was not valuableat all. Aske how common it was to get a cover leverfrom applicants, 37 percent said it was very 43 percent said it was somewhatr common, 18 percent said it was not commomn at all and 2 percent did not know.
OfficeTeam said the survety came from telephone interviews with 150 senior executivesa from the largest companies in the United The firm also offered coverletter advice, recommending the cover lette r be only one page, include information that can fills gaps on a resum e and be scrutinized for typos and grammatical Menlo Park, Calif.-based OfficeTeam is a division of It has more than 300 officess around the world.