Cover Letter that made me grin.

[Cafe]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kid-se...151518002.html


Lets come to the realization that the internet has faciliated millions of people to duplicate a "perfect" cover letter but I always felt that honesty in a cover letter makes a better impression to any employer.

Anyone out there with similar cover letters that opened your doors for employment?

[Rukentuts]

Is it sad the first thing I noticed is that he spelled 'crap' as 'crapp'? Misspellings are a big no-no on a cover letter.

[Deleted]

Is it sad the first thing I noticed is that he spelled 'crap' as 'crapp'? Misspellings are a big no-no on a cover letter.

Noticed that too lol.

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This would be nice if it encouraged atleast a few people to not lie in their cover letters, but I doubt that will ever happen to those that already lie or will want to lie in future cover letters.

[Flatspriest]

And to think, he didn't even spell "crap" correctly and still got a call.

[Reeve]

Is it sad the first thing I noticed is that he spelled 'crap' as 'crapp'? Misspellings are a big no-no on a cover letter.

Yeah I noticed that too, but I still liked it. Gotta admire people who are just willing to put themselves out there and do whatever's needed to get the job done.

[Masark]

Is it just me or does the crapp look like a hyperlink in the pictures?

[Daskapital]

Yeah I noticed that too, but I still liked it. Gotta admire people who are just willing to put themselves out there and do whatever's needed to get the job done.

If he can afford to live in New York City and work for nothing, he's probably not putting himself out there so much as he's putting mom and dad's bank account out there.

[Deleted]

Is it just me or does the crapp look like a hyperlink in the pictures?

It's just coloured I believe, with blue? I don't understand it quite well tbh.

[Reeve]

If he can afford to live in New York City and work for nothing, he's probably not putting himself out there so much as he's putting mom and dad's bank account out there.

Well good for him. If he has parents who can afford to do that for him and are willing to do it, he should take advantage of it. Often kids with parents like that tend to lack the chutzpah to want to take a job where they might end up fetching coffee or picking up dry cleaning. I admire the spirit that says, "I'll do whatever I need to do to get my foot in the door."

[Spiralphoenix]

Is it just me or does the crapp look like a hyperlink in the pictures?

It is most definitely blue, and I assumed the same thing. I also assumed it was a link to something else in which he intentionally spelled it "crapp" because that is perhaps how it is spelled wherever that link leads.

Personally I more noticed "I just wanted thank you" in the very first paragraph, which would be very easy to pick up by simply reading it aloud, which I would expect people would do with these things. But regardless, a tiny mistake like that is irrelevant now that his cover letter has exploded more or less publicly for it's extreme blunty-ness.

[apatheticalex]

I've written a few of these types of letters for police internships. Got the internship, but no news story.

[Cafe]

Would be interesting to see a politicians honest and blunt cover letter float around somewhere.

[Ebildays]

Is it sad the first thing I noticed is that he spelled 'crap' as 'crapp'? Misspellings are a big no-no on a cover letter.

Well it is an email and you tell from the different colored font of the word "crapp" that it is a hyper-link to something, maybe titled "crapp" so most likely it is not misspelled.

[Deleted]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kid-se...151518002.html


Lets come to the realization that the internet has faciliated millions of people to duplicate a "perfect" cover letter but I always felt that honesty in a cover letter makes a better impression to any employer.

Anyone out there with similar cover letters that opened your doors for employment?

I agree about the usual BS in application letters not being worth anything, and I appreciate the blunt approach. However, a person who is making an application to a Masters of Science degree, possibly a law qualification and is writing a cover letter for a job, who can't even get the spelling and language right? I think not.

[Raiju]

...I don't get it? I've seen about 1 of these every 20 or so applications... It's commonplace among apprenticeship/internship applications. Why is this one special? Why did this one go viral?

[openair]

...I don't get it? I've seen about 1 of these every 20 or so applications... It's commonplace among apprenticeship/internship applications. Why is this one special? Why did this one go viral?

Yea it is really not that special. I learned a long time ago that copy/paste and charging a few words in a cover letter doesn't work. You write your own to stand out.

I guess it might have something to do with the offer to shine someone shoes in an email... Like the email was sent 50 years ago when professional shoe shiners was a thing.