in my cover letter to Evercore, I accidentally addressed them once as Greenhill... awful mistake I know. Will this kill my chances? Should I re-send recruitment my resume and updated cover letter? if it were a BB I wouldn't care as much but I heard boutiques pay a little more attention to cover letters than larger banks. advice?
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hahaha that sucks. In my experience, even if HR doesn't read your cover letter and you get selected for an interview, your interviewer will have seen and read your cover letter.
Just move on.
Lucky it wasn't the other way around.
Explain?
What I mean is that Evercore is shitty firm with an even shittier website. Thus it would have been a lot worse if you were applying to Greenhill and mentioned them instead of the converse. Think yourself lucky and go smash the Greenhill interview.
It's one of those mistakes that everyone understands, but it still sucks because it will probably kill your chances.
I would just move on and forget about it, and if you do end up getting an interview, be thankful.
Yea, unfortunately I think you are pretty screwed. Thats a pretty miserable mistake even though its an easy one to make.
I'm sorry to hear that. By now your letter is probably on someone's door with the "Greenhill" highlighted...
At least that's what happened when someone a cover letter to my firm, but said they were very interested about an opportunity to work for one of our competitors
happens to most people at some point, but i'd cut your losses and consider anything you get from this point lucky
your best bet is to sneak into the firm at night and steal their entire resume stack.
oh and that reminds me of a mistake made several years ago. After spell checking the email, BlackRock was turned into BlackCOCK without noticing.. Good times..
Ha yea I've done that before. I was cold-emailing a ton of firms one day and just started to use search and replace. Turns out that I spelled out the firm one time and used abbreviations on all the others, so when I did a search and replace for the abbreviations it missed that one. The MD (small firm) got a kick out of it but needless to say he did not grant me an interview.
I'd disagree here.
It kills your chances this on that application thread. Use a different e-mail address and re-apply.
Possibly even print out a paper resume/cover letter and mail to HR.
Here's the thing about getting people's advice. On one side, you do get better informed as to the issues and/or learn something you may have overlooked. On the other hand, by getting and listening to the advice of others, you will, at best, achieve what they have. What makes someone stand out is when they have the balls, persistence or ingenuity to do what other people wouldn't have done if they were in that same position.
Take that for what its worth: advice.
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