How do you expect me to judge candidates without a cover letter telling me how they meet the job spec?
Wouldn’t the CV do that? Assuming an applicant is applying for a role they’re experienced in.
Some examples of duties from my CV
Maintaining project files, hard copy and electronic
Creating excel reports on production
Collating staff hours from timesheets
Managing email account, responding to enquiries and update requests
Cost control reports for projects
Ordering materials
Preparing consignment notes and material certs
This is just a basic example, there will be more bits in there in there relating to the industry to gi (ie what materials, what kind of projects, what costs, I do a bit of supply chain related work etc)
This tells you atleast that I have general admin experience, filing, IT literate, excel, email, financial data input, staffing, which is what I’d expect a general admin job to require.
There will be things on there that are self explanatory, eg if your spec says team work - teamwork will be implied through the part where I list the production support element (on my actual cv, not in this example).
This is in particular why I struggle with cover letters, as my CV (imo
) does give loads of info, but bullet points and easy to read.