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By nature, I tend to be pretty risk-allergic, always playing it safe and rarely giving peril a chance. But over the last year or so, I’ve been slowly cultivating a resistance to caution and embracing danger and uncertainty more and more.
And this new mindset has infected the way I apply for jobs now.
Since the beginning of the year, I’ve applied for over a dozen jobs and haven’t made much progress. Among the factors holding me back, I think a lackluster cover letter is chief among them. The cover letters I’ve written have been too plain, too predictable, too…safe.
I decided to unleash some fury in my cover letter for a writing position at a shitty little pop culture website called Film Daily. As a cinema snob with a creative writing and blogging background, as well as plenty of content marketing experience, I thought I’d be an ideal fit for the role, and I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let Film Daily get away with not being force-fed my perfection.
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I haven’t heard back from them yet.
But maybe my cover letter will encourage job-seekers out there to try to make themselves stand out from the pack a bit when applying for jobs.
