{"id":1002,"date":"2007-06-13T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/a-cover-letter-disqualifier\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T14:24:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T19:24:27","slug":"a-cover-letter-disqualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/a-cover-letter-disqualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cover Letter Disqualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from an online job board:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I live in _______. I have a lot of customer service experience, but I am willing to do just about anything. I am in a lot of debt and need a good solid job to help me get out of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not good.&nbsp; Apparently the appeal here is to have a company provide money to them to relieve their debt.<\/p>\n<p>I feel for them being in debt, but this type of positioning is terrible.&nbsp; Far better to&nbsp;articulate what the company receives for employing the candidate&#8217;s services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from an online job board: I live in _______. I have a lot of customer service experience, but I am willing to do just about anything. I am in a lot of debt and need a good solid job to help me get out of it. Not good.&nbsp; Apparently the appeal here is to have a company provide money to them to relieve their debt. I feel for them being in debt, but this type of positioning is terrible.&nbsp; Far better to&nbsp;articulate what the company receives for employing the candidate&#8217;s services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resumes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-ga","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1333,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/now-this-is-marketing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1002,"position":0},"title":"Now THIS Is Marketing","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I heard a radio commercial this morning for one of these credit card debt consolidation companies.\u00a0 The closing line from the commercial: Must have over $10,000 of credit card debt to qualify. 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