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Whatever you do, don't take cover.

The sequel continues. Welcome to episode 3 of "what they don't teach you in job seeker school".

On the agenda: Cover letters, you know the letters that are supposed to cover your job applications when you pass these to recruiters or job managers/consultants. Far too often this is where it really goes wrong in your quest for a job. You perceive the cover letter to be, well "a cover letter". It's not. far from. Listen, this "cover letter" is the front page of your resume, the document you want to use to catch attention and upon which you hope to be called for an interview. That brings your resume front page to be....... page 2! Now remembering (I've mentioned this elsewhere on the blog.jufito.com) that any job-relevant recipient of a resume/job application spends max 90 seconds to scan an application, out of that just how much time do you think he/she spends getting to page two - your resume front - after having scanned your cover letter? Will he/she turn to page two if the cover letter is of no interest and merely has "The delivery address, job reference title/number, date and a "here is my job application" tag"? I dare say - NO!

So think of this:

a. Your cover letter is the first basis whereupon a reader makes a judgement call

b. To get the reader to page 2, your cover letter must be inspiring, attention getting, eye catching to leave the thought "now this looks interesting". Anything else is a show stopper.

So do make sure that your cover letter becomes a 100% integrated part of your job application and that it is designed to create attention. You do this by personalizing it. Send it to a person by name. Don't know the name of the recipient?, find out! And if you really can't establish the name of the interviewer (double check the advertisement, there is usually a name listed or just call up the company and ask), make sure you address the cover letter to a person by title. But be 100% sure to use the right http://www.derechoparroquial.com/maintenance-tips-for-pre-owned-vehicles/