Not the same as the eyes of the cover letter

In mid-October 2005 served as president of Google China, Kai-fu Lee to start in eight cities in China's 20 colleges and universities for the Google Research Academy of Engineering to recruit the first batch of talent. This allows students望眼欲穿numerous waves of the open recruitment of candidates of a near-fanatical climax, hundreds of thousands of applicants a letter such as the general flood tide. Google even has specially designed a set of procedures for retrieval, classification, statistical information on applicants.

One day in October, Kai-fu Lee sent a personal e-mail caught his eye: "Why is the same message twice received? Then spotted Lee, issued by e-mail address is far more than two, a spokesman for the User name Kfll, Kaifuli, Kfli, suffix-mail Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. can think of all the e-mail sent again.

There is no doubt that was deeply touched opened the resumption of Lee read this message --- this is a cover letter, but the unique content:

First of all, the students expressed in the letter in the fifth grade when he first use of Google, at a later time tracking some of the Google products, a detailed description of a product he likes Google, as well as a part of this part of the characteristics of .

He then expressed a wish to be Google. A careful analysis of the Google recruiting several positions, and an analysis of what jobs are most suitable for them.

Finally, he frankly expressed his face at the same time other opportunities, I hope Google reply as soon as possible, to make a decision.

Kai-fu Lee said later: If you look at 10,000 per day resume, curriculum vitae and letters have almost every size-fits-all to age, gender, political outlook at the beginning, you definitely do not want the second page of the再翻.

This letter is not the same job so that the students in the tens of thousands of candidates stand out, and passed the interview.