From the print edition of STLJobWatch, published in the Friday edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

It was the first point of contact between a prospective employee and prospective employer. And, if your cover letters were anything like mine, style and substance tended to take a back seat to hyperbole.

Notice that I’m talking about the cover letter in the past tense.

Because I have a theory that the cover letter has been relegated to history, lost in a process that has all but eliminated the human component from corporate hiring.

It’s a mechanism that starts by requiring job-seekers to submit resumes by e-mail.

Read the rest of the column here.

Have a particularly embarrassing cover letter buried in your hard-drive or is there a horrific cover letter experience in your distant or not-so-distant past? Feel free to share…