On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:48:53 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 9/20/2012 0:37, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> Currently I'm going with the latter approach.
> 
> But tailor your cover letter, especially if you're applying directly to
> the company. Point out each correspondence between your CV and their job
> advertisement.

^This

It's especially helpful if you can use phrases or words from the job 
posting in the cover letter.  That helps with keyword-based electronic 
systems (same as with the resume/CV as well).

It'd been suggested as an interesting experiment (but not in any serious 
way) that one thing that might "help" (until it got caught, anyways) 
would be to include in the CV/cover letter a copy of the actual job 
posting in small white-on-white text.  Of course, that'd trick the 
system, but when a human looked at it, they might well notice it and 
disqualify you for trying to "cheat".  Probably why nobody's ever owned 
up to using that idea. :)

Jim

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