A job seeker has revealed the sheer horror of writing cover letters, confessing that the corporate buzzwords make him feel like a 'snivelling maggot'. He's so disgusted by his own 'proactive self-starter' prose that he fears his family might disown him if they ever read it. Meanwhile, employers won't even read the application.

<span style="font-weight: 400;">THE grovelling sentences a man comes out with when writing a covering letter disgust him to his core, it has emerged.</span> <p><strong>THE grovelling sentences a man comes out with when writing a covering letter disgust him to his core, it has emerged.</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Self-hating jobseeker Tom Booker can barely look at himself in the mirror after typing out sentences like ‘I am a proactive self-starter with a commitment to excellen...