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Warning: I let a chatbot write my cover letter and it cost me a $52k warehouse supervisor job
I was up against 40 other people for this spot at a distribution center near Fresno, and I had 3 days to send in my application. I had two choices: spend my Saturday writing a real cover letter from scratch, or paste my resume into one of those free AI tools and let it spit something out. I picked the AI route because I was beat after 10 hour shifts all week. The thing pumped out a letter that sounded like a robot wrote it, all stiff and full of words I would never say out loud. The hiring manager told my buddy, who works there, that my letter read like a computer wrote it and they passed me over. I start my shift at 4am tomorrow at the same old job, so yeah, I learned my lesson the hard way. Has anyone here figured out a fast way to write these without sounding like a machine?
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samk7718d ago
Ouch, that stings just reading it. Honestly the dead giveaway is usually the tone, because those tools write like a HR pamphlet instead of a guy who actually worked the floor for years. What did you end up doing with that letter after, did you save it somewhere so you could at least see what phrases gave you away? I ask because I've been burned the same way and now I just pull the good parts from mine and rewrite them in my own words. The trick that works for me is talking it out loud first and typing what I actually say, since my voice comes through way better that way.
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