Read the Room with Laurie J. Wetzel

<p>"I have never read a cover letter. Not once."<br/><br/>Mike Materasso has spent more than 15 years deciding who gets hired at Amazon, Slack, Brex, and Alpine Investors. He is not being dismissive. He is describing arithmetic: 8,000 applicants filter down to about 700, and he has roughly 20 seconds per resume to decide whether to read further.<br/><br/>Which is the thing worth sitting with. It is not whether you are good. It is whether what you are can be read quickly, by someone who is not going to work hard to understand you.<br/><br/>In this conversation...