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I love the idea! I spend weeks making countless minor tweaks to my resume until I finally land a new job, and I hate employers who ask for, or even require, a cover letter. I'm a fairly sincere person and I hate writing cover letters because it feels like kissing ass for a corporation I really don't give a crap about. Letting AI do that job for me sounds like a great idea. Besides, it won't be long before the majority of job applicants start using AI to generate personalized cover letters, effectively making cover letters worthless.

On the other hand, I dread knowing that recruiters are also using these AI generators to write introductory messages. It used to be easy to filter out the worthless recruiters, the majority of them it's super obvious they didn't read your resume or profile. "I'm super impressed by your experience!" Uh huh. But now, AI can generate an introductory message which takes every detail of my skills and experience into account. So now, if a recruiter contacts me and they reference one or two details in my resume, I have to wonder if it was an actually competent recruiter or just an AI.



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