{"id":21013,"date":"2008-09-01T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/09\/01\/it-helps-if-you-write-a-cover-letter-and-remember-the-name-of-your-interviewer\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T10:00:01","slug":"it-helps-if-you-write-a-cover-letter-and-remember-the-name-of-your-interviewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080901-01\/?p=21013\/","title":{"rendered":"It helps if you write a cover letter and remember the name of your interviewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s not a big thing, but it shows that you have your act together and does a lot towards distinguishing you from everybody else. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fizzz.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/09\/career-fairs\/\"> A story of the importance of writing a cover letter and remembering the name of your interviewer<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> (Then again, what do I know. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jobsblog\/\">JobsBlog<\/a> probably is a better source for this type of info. Earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jobsblog\/pages\/angela-mclaughlin.aspx\"> Angela McLaughlin<\/a> shared <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jobsblog\/archive\/2008\/01\/15\/can-you-submit-cover-letters-through-the-microsoft-careers-site.aspx\"> her thoughts on cover letters<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a big thing, but it shows that you have your act together and does a lot towards distinguishing you from everybody else. A story of the importance of writing a cover letter and remembering the name of your interviewer. (Then again, what do I know. JobsBlog probably is a better source for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-21013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;s not a big thing, but it shows that you have your act together and does a lot towards distinguishing you from everybody else. A story of the importance of writing a cover letter and remembering the name of your interviewer. (Then again, what do I know. JobsBlog probably is a better source for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}