How to Write a Cover Letter
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This presentation gives guidelines how to write a brilliant cover latter that will open the doors for your job application approval and ensures you will be invited to a job interview. It discussed the cover letter structure, the typical mistakes and how to avoid them. The author has good experience in training and hiring computer programmers, software engineers and IT professionals.
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How to Write a Cover Letter
- 3. Why Do We Need a Cover Letter?
- 16. How to Write a Good Cover Letter?
- 24. Lying in Cover Letter Do You Really Need to Do It?
- 28. Don’t Make Mistakes Spelling, Punctuation and Formatting Mistakes
- 31. Good and Bad Cover Letters Live Demo
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- Mistake 3: Missing Cover Letter Some people think that nobody reads the cover letters sent as part of their job application and that the cover letter is a meaningless requirement. Such people believe that strong CV and rich experience is enough. In some companies this could be true, but in the best employers this is great mistake. Certainly, there are some companies that really do not care about the cover letter and as a rule these companies do not request it. If a cover letter is requested, be sure it will be read, at least at a glance. In the most prestigious and well-structured companies the cover letter is very important and the human resources (HR) team at the company definitely reads it. If the cover letter is impressive, you will be immediately contacted and invited to an interview, even if your experience is not great. Remember: it is always worth to send a well-prepared, impressive cover latter, especially written for exactly this company and exactly this job position. Never “reuse” your cover letters. A good cover letter for certain company and job position is in most cased bad cover letter for another p osition. Beware: If you apply for a second time in given company, be sure to rewrite your cover letter. Most good companies will disregard your application in case they find that you apply for a second time with the same cover letter. The same cover letter means that your motivation is not changed, your qualification is not changed since your last application. Be sure that the HR professionals will try to find as much information about you as they can. They will search in Google about you, will try to find your Facebook profile, will try to find information about you from current employees, etc. The HR professionals never forget if you had ever sent a bad job application. They will find you, be sure. That’s why you should always carefully prepare your job application before sending it. Read this article to the end and think a bit how to proceed the next time when you apply for a job. Mistake 4: Template-based Cover Letter One of the best ways to guarantee a failure of your job application process is to use a template-based cover latter. Never do this! Once we received a really bad cover letter like this: “ Dear …, I would like to apply for Your Company because I am skillful and highly enthusiastic candidate. I want to grow in Your Company, to improve my knowledge and skills. Your company is the best and I want to be part of it. I am hard worker and will help your business to grow.” The above is just a bullshit! This text says nothing about why you want exactly this position in exactly this company, how your experience in the past will help you do exactly this job, why you are really match the requirements from the job offer, etc. Moreover, using phrases like “Your Company” is always a bad idea! Once we even received a cover letter starting with “Dear …” with three dots coming from the template. Remember: There is no way to write a good cover latter by template. How to Write a Cover Letter A good way for writing a cover letter is to read enough about the company and the offered position and following the requirements stated in the job offer and the detailed job descriptions to write roughly 1-2 sentences matching each of these requirements (not directly, not exactly in the order specified in the job offer and not exactly with their words an phrases!). For example if the job requires “ examine and analyze the technical documentation of competitors ”, you could write for example that “ in your previous job you had to read a lot of technical documentation and thus you believe that you will be able to find, read and analyze various types of articles, documents, manuals, etc. ”. Don’t use this sentence in your cover letter. Say it with your words, matching your experience and skills. If you don’t have similar experience, say for example that “ you like to read blogs and articles and you know that technical documentation is different but it should also be interesting and challenging ”. Use your won words. Another example: the job description requires “ excellent communication skills ”. You could write that “ you believe you have a good sense of communication because you had organized a small technical seminar at school or at the university where you needed to contact the speakers, arrange the seminar venue, invite the attendees, attract sponsors, etc. ”. This could never be used as template. It depends on your past experience, interests, skills, personal character qualities, etc. A bad idea is to write “ I am very good in examining and analyzing the technical documentation of competitors ”. How you prove this? What are your arguments? If you are not good in something, just skip talking about it. You can’t say you are good at something without any arguments. How you know you are good in this? Just describe it. Another bad idea: ” I have excellent communication skills ”. This sound like “ I am 18 years old and I have very rich experience in professional project management in large teams ”. Saying something without arguments is always a bad idea. Either argument well your statement or just don’t talk about it. Never Lie in Your CV and Cover Letter Never lie! If you lie in your CV or cover letter, you will be caught at the interview and your eventual interview will end very soon. Just write in the cover letter something matching the requested requirements and provide valid supporting arguments. You could prove that you match certain requirements either by showing similar experience, or you by saying you have read about this in the past, or just sharing that you have a friend who always talks to you about this, or you just explain that you want to learn this and you even had read an article about it and watched a related video tutorial. Always use valid arguments and never lie. If you say you are … or …, find a supporting arguments. Another example: “ I am a hard-worker ”. How you prove this? You could say that “ at the university you always have high grades due to the fact that you always come very well prepared for the exams ” or that “ when an important work is waiting you, you could not sleep until you get it done ”. Just use valid true arguments based on your past experience (not only work experience, but general). Don’t Make Spelling, Punctuation and Formatting Mistakes When writing your CV and cover letter, use a spell checker. Don’t make spelling mistakes, punctuation mistakes, etc. MS Word and the other text processing applications have very good spell checkers. Just use them. Format your CV and cover letter well. Here you can use templates. Just type “CV template” or “sample cover letter” in Google and you will find lots of examples. Be sure to use only the styles, layout and formatting from the best examples you find and never use the text inside. Some companies even use an automated software to find whether your cover letter is template-based, so be sure to write it entirely in your words!