Are you interested in changing careers? If you are, will you soon start examining all open jobs in or around your area, if you haven’t already done so? Once you are able to find one or more jobs that meet or exceed your expectations, you will likely start submitting your resume. Before this point in time comes, you will want to place a focus on cover letters.
Speaking of cover letters, do you already have a cover letter developed? If you do not, this is one of the…
On a daily basis, there are thousands of resume cover letters landing the desks of office recruiters. Just take note of the number of your competitors for the job. Therefore, this only calls for one thing-and that is you’ve got to work hard to set your own resume cover letter as uniquely as possible from the rest of the jobseekers out there. Mind you, you should always work on an interesting resume cover letter and a design that will only be associated with yourself. In their long stay in…
The internet is flooded with hundreds of resume samples, which is one less worry. However, to make your resume professional and effective, you need to understand the importance of layout and wording. As you will discover in this article, there are a number of tips to provide you with the extra help needed when using a sample resume.
You need to know what works and what does not work when creating a resume. Chances are, you have been sending out resume after resume without much…
When you have completed the ideal resume, then the step that follows is the frequently dreaded covering letter. Preparing a cover letter for a resume is a challenge since it is difficult to determine what must be mentioned in the letter and what has already been enclosed in your resume and what conditions, phrases and words are vital to catch the reader’s attention.
Several key points must be kept in mind while writing a resume cover letter. They must attract the reader to look at the entire resume.…
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As a career counselor, I can’t tell you how many tens of thousands of cover letters I’ve read, reviewed, and edited in over 30 years in the field. There’s certainly a lot of good advice out there on how to write a cover letter, but here’s what I think is wrong with most of the actual cover letters I’ve seen: (You may also wish to review my companion article “What’s Wrong with Most Resumes?“)
1. Ineffective salutation. What I typically see are salutations such as, “Dear…
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Sometimes the only separating you from a great job and unemployment – is a great resume. But the rules on how to write a resume that grabs the attention of an employer are always changing.
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I have very few job interviews and I think that I need to change the cover letter such that I will have more chance to “Sell” myself.
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Don’t just send a potential employer your standard CV or resume. Why?
Because the chances are it won’t get read, especially if it’s a speculative resume or CV. Why?
Because employers get annoyed when it looks like you’ve made no effort in your application to them.
Rather employers want to know that it’s their job you want and that you have taken time and made the effort to tailor your application accordingly. They figure that if you don’t make the effort when it’s important, you won’t…