The Cover Letter
The cover letter is a "companion" to your resume and can provide a customized, personal introduction to you.
With a good cover letter, you can
focus on the opportunity without redoing your resume
call attention to specific highlights in your resume
distinguish yourself from the competition with a crisp, well-written communication
Cover Letter Tips
Address your cover letter to the individual reading your resume and use their name and title.
The cover letter should be one page in length (maximum). Use short sentences and plenty of white space. Preferably, your text should take up no more than half the page.
Use a standard four-paragraph outline:
State your strongest points
Tell the reader why you want to work for this company
Highlight your skills and qualifications
Request an interview and suggest how you will follow up
The top reason resumes and cover letters are trashed is
poor spelling and grammar
. Use a dictionary,
The Chicago Manual of Style
, a computer spell checker, and/or an objective reader to review your spelling and grammar before you send your resume out.
Examples
To see good examples of cover letters, click below
. Documents are available in
Microsoft Word
or
PDF formats
. (Note: you must have Adobe Acrobat reader to view PDF documents. A link to this free software can be found below.)
Click here
to download Acrobat Reader.
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