{"id":99372,"date":"2026-10-16T21:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99372"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:23:22","slug":"gifted-article-this-used-to-be-a-cornerstone-of-every-job-application-not-anymore-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/10\/16\/gifted-article-this-used-to-be-a-cornerstone-of-every-job-application-not-anymore-carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"[Gifted article] This used to be a cornerstone of every job application. Not anymore. [Carpenter]"},"content":{"rendered":"

This used to be a cornerstone of every job application. Not anymore.<\/strong> <\/a>— from washingtonpost.com by Julia Carpenter; this is a gifted article<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nHas AI finally killed the cover letter?<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not just easier to write a cover letter, it\u2019s easier to write a phenomenal cover letter,\u201d Kessler said. \u201cThat\u2019s become more of a prerequisite and less of a differentiator.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, the use of AI has contributed to an explosion of applications. For every open role in 2026 there are twice as many applicants as there would have been for similar roles in 2022, according to a recent study from LinkedIn Research.<\/p>\n

That makes hiring managers and recruiters less likely to give cover letters even a perfunctory glance. They have too much else to handle during a busy job search, said Johnny C. Taylor, president and chief executive officer of the Society for Human Resource Management.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cover letter is literally dead, never to be resuscitated,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s too much volume for this beautiful piece of prose.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough when no one can give you a right answer,\u201d Ogunlana said. \u201cYou have some recruiters saying \u2018It\u2019s worth it\u2019 and others saying \u2018No.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

If there is any consensus, it\u2019s that cover letters with a \u201chuman element\u201d still can help an applicant stand out.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They need to sound different from all the ones written with AI, said Jason Baker, vice president of talent acquisition at Arctic Wolf, a security operations firm.<\/p>\n

Baker recalled one applicant who didn\u2019t land the job they originally applied for, but because their cover letter made such an impression, Baker invited them back when the company was hiring again for a similar position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This used to be a cornerstone of every job application. Not anymore. — from washingtonpost.com by Julia Carpenter; this is a gifted article Has AI finally killed the cover letter? \u201cIt\u2019s not just easier to write a cover letter, it\u2019s easier to write a phenomenal cover letter,\u201d Kessler said. \u201cThat\u2019s become more of a prerequisite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,174,86,855,66,212,321,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-change","category-skills","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-united-states","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99374,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99372\/revisions\/99374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}