This Generic Cover Letter Got A Screenwriter A Job
Okay, so it happened nearly a century ago, but it’s still a great cover letter—and one that writer Robert Pirosh didn’t customize, but instead mass-mailed to as many employers as he could think of.
Pirosh had just returned to New York (by way of a year in Europe) and was hoping to make it in Hollywood as a screenwriter.
Here’s what he wrote, via Letters of Note:
Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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