Aaahh! Real Monster.com

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Currently, I’m in scouring the job market for a something that I actually want to do.  Today I found a listing I liked on Monster.com.  The description was almost too good to be true.  My imagination kicked in and I could see myself doing this particular job and enjoying it!  I gleefully clicked the bright orange “Apply” button at the bottom of the page and chose the resume that I wanted to submit.

Monster wanted to know “Cover Letter?”  I thought, “Yes, Monster.com, I want to put the cherry on the sundae that is my potential dream job.”  Like all professional unemployed people, I copied & pasted my most brilliantly composed cover letter (that I had written last week with the intention of utilizing it to submit multiple applications to different companies with maximum timeliness and efficiency) from Microsoft Word into the text box.  Oh! I was so excited!  Buzzing with the anticipation of possibly waking up each morning to do something I wanted to do that – I…forgot…one…small…thing…

This absolutely awesome cover letter that I had just sent with great relish had a mistake in it.  I neglected to change where I had written ”[Fill in where listing seen]” in the first paragraph to read instead “Monster.com”.  When I wrote the letter, I had intended to change that detail on an as needed basis so I wouldn’t have to spend a great deal of time writing and re-writing multiple cover letters to submit with my resume with multiple job applications.   Oops.

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