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Resume Cover Letters Get You In the Door
Don't Blow It With Yours
A great resume cover letter is the golden key to any job search.
Yet despite this fact, an estimated 85% of cover letters are
so flawed that the senders never land an interview.
I have reviewed several thousand cover letters since
I founded www.JobHuntingLetters.com. Not even 10% of those letters
were acceptable. Recently I advertised for a full-time,
experienced creative director. "One person department, work directly
with CEO," read the blind ad, which also requested a
cover letter. Roughly 100 of the 150 job seekers sent cover
letters. Two-thirds contained mistakes (including a misspelled
current job title). Fifteen applicants addressed me as "To
whom it may concern" even though my name was clearly
posted in the ad.
Equally distressing, a mere six cover letters specifically
addressed the qualifications I listed in the ad. And only
three piqued my interest enough to read the senders' resumes.
The best resume cover letter referenced the job and what the
applicant was going to do to make my company better. At that
moment in my mind, this applicant seemed like the perfect
person for the job.
This applicant's breezy but enthusiastic letter
offered detailed examples of her entrepreneurial creative
experience. The applicant tempered her bravado with humor. "I've always been a
sort of "one-man band" (albeit of the feminine persuasion!)
and in these lean economic times, I'm finding that really
comes in handy," she wrote.
The applicant concluded her four-paragraph resume cover letter
with the tantalizing comment that she had numerous related
creative ideas. ...By dropping an intriguing thought near
the end of a resume cover letter it entices the hiring manager
to follow up with you to find out more.
Craft a Compelling
Resume Cover Letter
Accelerate Your Future
If what is written in your resume cover letter can be written
by the person who did the job before or with you, then you
haven't done yourself justice. It's as simple as that.
Any person who reads resume cover letters
often knows how much they follow the same old pattern.
They start with "The
writer would like to apply for a position with your company,"
or "With reference to your advertisement online, the
writer wishes to apply for said position." Then they
follow with a monotonous description of personal characteristics,
jobs previously held, educational institutions attended, throw
in some references, and end with, "Hoping to receive
consideration for an interview," or something equally
dull. Naturally, any person who hires people
is bored with reading these resume cover letters, and
turns with relief to one that is written in a more interesting
style.
This Is How It's Done. Here Is The Cookbook. Just Follow Along
And Learn.
I've written hundreds of resume cover letters for clients.
In doing so, I discovered a secret. By simply analyzing which
of my resume cover letters delivered interviews and which
did not, I quickly discovered a pattern. A pattern that you
can easily duplicate right now! ...Success, like many things
in life, is simply a matter of understanding what works and
what does not.
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If too much information is offered,
the reader gets bored within seconds,
they lose interest and
you do not get an interview, much
less the job offer.
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