Resume Advice-Cover Letters

There are many schools of thought on cover letters, but this one should be shared. Unless what is being said in a one page prose document is so compelling as to your benefit to a company that it has to be submitted, the one page is a distraction from the actual experience, which is what the reader is most interested in seeing. In fact, if the one page document is that compelling, then you have to wonder what you missed in the resume. Most senior level executives have neither the time nor patience in the initial review of a resume to get much past the first page. Everything beyond that is skimming. Since we know this to be true, it seems smarter to have them concentrating on the information that may actually be of interest to them. In all of the cover letters I have read, I have never had to refer to one in preparation for an interview. Never.