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As a hiring manager, I am not a fan of the T letter.
The various scanning systems employed in the application
screening process (including the eyes of a capable outside
or HR dept recruiter who has been throughly briefed by me
on my requirements) will find the words that match the
requirements in our job description wherever they are on
the letter page, and since I wrote that job description
I can remember what I put in it without having to reread
it in every application; what I'm looking for are signs
that a prospective writer can get a message across in
clearly written and well constructed sentences and
paragraphs. A T-letter table might be the right approach
if you know the company is one of those "young/dynamic/
iconoclastic/insert whatever euphemism for 20-something
founded dotcom you prefer here" kind of places, but when
you look at a room full of tech pubs managers, there's
still a lot of us old geezers around who think that a
business letter is not the same thing as a page from a
technical manual.
Gene Kim-Eng
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On Fri, 7 May 2004 13:54:44 -0600 wrote:
Wouldn't this be the perfect opportunity to use the T Letter?
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