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Covering Letter for Job Seekers




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A covering letter (CL)is a focused, concise mail to your prospective employer, introducing yourself to him, registering your profound interest in the job advertised, and telling him why he should read through your CV and give you the job instead of any other person.

You should never send any application form or CV without a cover letter.

As soon as your reader rips open the envelope of your cov. letter, you have ten to twenty seconds to sell yourself and make lasting impressions.

Apart from using a cov. letter as an introductory mouthpiece while sending in your application pack / CV, a well written letter can be invaluable in prospecting for job and for networking.

Your letter should always be neat, free from typographical errors and grammatical mistakes. It is your first contact with your employer to be.

You can send a covering letter as an email.You can get many free cover letter sample on the web now, but as a general guide, these are what could be included (and not ) in a letter of this type below.

What to include

This is your opportunity to tell the prospective employer that you are a smart

intelligent and efficient employee to be, who has a lot to contribute to his business. To do this effectively, your covering letter must:

• Never be more than a page long

• Be addressed to a named recipient

• Not start with boring introductions like “I hereby apply for”

• Start with what you have achieved, and how you can use it to benefit the new company

• Proceed to mention briefly why you so qualify for the job based on your skill and experience

• Always be positive

• Close by asking for an interview and thanking the recipient for his time and consideration

• Yours sincerely should always be the closing salutation if you know the name of the recipient, or yours faithfully if you do not

• Including a very relevant point as post script can greatly enhance the likelihood of been read


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