Right! Ask for an outline of a cover letter and let your voice compose it. As someone that went through the hiring side of it for a smaller company, wading through AI slop is pretty frustrating. Also having gone through a job change in the recent past, it can feel like an uphill battle to keep filling out applications ad naseum. In the same vein, do you want to work for a company that happily misses good candidates through bad ai filtering? That speaks a lot about the organization right there.

Thanks for saving me from having to click the link!

You’re allowed to not be ready to do something like that even if it would make your son happy. It’s okay to put up boundaries for your mental health.

Was this supposed to be journalism?