New way to send a cover letter

i hate videos and i hate cover letters

i care about these, in order

1. Portfolio

I don't read cover letters, and i definitely close videos unless someone is a VFX artist or an animator.

i usually don't even read emails.

If the portfolio impresses me, i'll read the email, then i'll read the resume just to see how long someone was at a company to see if they were bouncing around a lot* (lol multitasking)

that's just me though, but i wouldn't put it past other people in my position that feel the same way. If a studio is lucky enough to have a hiring manager, they can filter people for them. With how busy i am though, people are lucky enough to even get a response from me. I'm not trying to act like i'm on a high horse or anything, that's the brutal and unfortunate truth of the situation. If i was responding to everyone and watching videos people submit me, it would seriously take me all day - every day. We get flooded with entry level position applicants... and the only thing i have time for is the initial 5 seconds of looking at your portfolio to be impressed or not - then i'm out. better make sure that first image is a good one!

Short, blunt, simple, in-and-out - thats where you want to be.

I liked the video *late to the party I see*, I was hoping you landed the job and I'm sorry to see you didn't. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Talented hard working people always find a job.

but this was 6 months ago, have you done anything new since then? or just waited for a reply?

Quote from blackdog

That's unfortunate, but that should motivate you to keep improving the portfolio.

You guys that are employed, do you know if your companies use software to filter applications? I've read a lot of big companies (in general, not limited to IT) do filter CVs by the number of keywords matching their parameters for a given job opening.

The companies I've been too have used human's to read the applications and if the applicant weren't interesting enough, the mail would most likely get ignored.

I know myself, running my own thing and I'm getting a lot of mails from people when I look for someone, I just can't reply to every mail, if I like what I see but still might not be interested, then I answer. Sometimes it's not good replying too, have you at any moment wondered why politicians some times answers vaguely?

Quote from Kedhrin

i hate videos and i hate cover letters

I think most of the people agrees, you are definitely never giving an interview to someone with an amazing letter and poor portfolio, that said, you have to spend sometime on that aspect anyway, since most studios require it. (I imagine the HR manager throwing away applications that not satisfy the requirements.)