Kai Risdahl

We covered a story about how resumes are being deprioritized.

And that made me think like, wow, the cover letter is probably long gone at this point.

we will stipulate here that cover letters can be painful to write.

They're no fun.

And obviously with chat GPT or AI system of your choice, you just crank them out.

So it's not just a quality thing, right?

Because you can see when stuff is written by AI and everybody knows it.

It's also a quantity thing, right?

People are getting drowning in cover letters.

Yeah, definitely.

I think hiring is up or, uh,

You know, the number of applications that hiring managers are getting is definitely up.

People are applying to more jobs on average.

And so, yeah, I mean, even this professor I spoke to, he's seen a 20% increase in the last year.

But yeah, so if you're getting more applications and all of them are top tier, it becomes really difficult to tell which ones are the actual top talent that you're working with.

This Wharton professor, as you say in this piece, was hiring like, what, four or five people to be his research assistant.

But there are companies and, you know, not even huge ones, but have to hire dozens, you know, hundreds of people.

What are they doing?

Yeah, so the companies that I heard from, for example, BCG.

Yeah, Boston Consulting Group, right?