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In past articles, we’ve discussed the basic structure of a cover letter. In this article, we’ll walk you through turning your basic cover letter into an impressive cover letter.
Your resume outlines your career, skills, and experience. It is the most common means of advertising to potential employers. Unfortunately, few hiring managers enjoy reading resumes.  Your cover letter is a short concise means of selling the hiring manager on reading your resume. They don’t have to commit much time to read over the cover letter, so they are highly likely to …

Choose every word in your cover letter carefully; you don’t have much room to sell them. Make sure your pitch is highly focused and maximizes the value you bring. The more valuable you appear in the cover letter, the more likely the reader will be to move on to your resume.
To help with choosing the best wording, we’ve included a few sample rewordings for your cover letter.

Job Requirement:

I am a people person

I fixed up two beaters I bought at a junk yard.

I like computers

I waited tables at a restaurant

Selling Phrase

I …

A cover letter introduces you to the potential employer. It is designed to get the reader’s attention and inspire them to read your resume in great detail. When well constructed, a cover letter can get your resume read by twice as many hiring managers. It can’t get you the job, but definitely helps you get your foot in the door.
Ingredients of a Good Cover Letter
Contact Information – All effective cover letters must include a way to contact you. There’s nothing worse than sending out a cover letter, getting the …

The key to success in any interview is preparation. The hiring manager has taken the time to read your resume and even possible research you. The least you can do is show similar respect by researching the company you’ll be interviewing with. If you have time, it is also wise to research the hiring manager as well.
Employer information from the library: There are many ways to research a hiring company and hiring managers. Your local librarian can help out, most likely they will be able to pull up demographics on …

In part one of this series we talked about your objective of the Q&A session of an interview and how it can frame your answers. In this article, we’ll cover ways the interviewer’s objective and proper responses.
The interviewer’s objective is very similar to yours. They are interviewing to answer a few focused questions: Is this person the best person for this job? Does this person really want this job? Can they really do the job? Can I count on them to keep doing this job? While doing this job, …