{"id":8981,"date":"2019-04-12T11:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T17:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=8981"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T17:52:03","slug":"how-to-approach-a-cover-letter-optional-job-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/how-to-approach-a-cover-letter-optional-job-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Approach a \u2018Cover Letter Optional\u2019 Job Listing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by LiveCareer | April 09, 2019<br \/>\nRe-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\">Vault<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been invited to a friend&#8217;s birthday party and been told you shouldn&#8217;t feel pressure to bring a gift? How often do you take this at face value? Do you assume your friend really doesn&#8217;t want a present? Or do you think, &#8220;I&#8217;ll just play it safe and get her something small to show I&#8217;ve thought of her?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Job seekers faced a similar dilemma when greeted with the words &#8220;cover letter optional&#8221; in a job posting. If you&#8217;ve been in this position, you&#8217;ve likely wondered, &#8220;Are they just testing me? Do they really want me to submit a cover letter, or are they genuinely fine with not receiving one? And what will it say about me if I don&#8217;t attach one?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\/blog\/resumes-cover-letters\/how-to-approach-a-cover-letter-optional-job-listing?&amp;utm_source=WCU_Letter&amp;utm_medium=Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=04_11_2019&amp;referer_ID=7778&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=104479\">READ MORE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by LiveCareer | April 09, 2019 Re-posted from Vault Have you ever been invited to a friend&#8217;s birthday party and been told you shouldn&#8217;t feel pressure to bring a gift? How often do you take this at face value? Do you assume your friend really doesn&#8217;t want a present? Or do you think, &#8220;I&#8217;ll just&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":847,"featured_media":7236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How to Approach a \u2018Cover Letter Optional\u2019 Job Listing","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[288,37],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-info-advice","tag-cover-letter","tag-job-search-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2018\/09\/Vault-small.jpg?fit=137%2C55&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-2kR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8982,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions\/8982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}