Monday, April 22, 2019
Five things every cover letter needs and one thing to delete
www.fastcompany.com: Online job applications have taken the focus off of the cover letter, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. Your cover letter is the opportunity to bring your resume to life with additional information. Overlook it and you’re missing a chance to stand out among the other candidates.
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I definitely need to improve my cover letter skills. Though I do good in face to face interviews, I’m coming to a point where the first impression given from a cover letter is becoming more important. The last time I wrote a cover letter was in production planning class for applying for a fake internship. I definitely didn’t know what I was doing when writing that cover letter. It was hard to know what or what not to add, I needed some structure. Structure is why this article appealed to me in the first place. I wish the one thing to leave out had more information, or was more specific or gave more examples. Most of what the article stated that was needed in a cover letter I already learned in production planning, I was looking for more of what not to add. Though I already knew most of the points suggested it was still helpful to get a little refresher on cover letter tips.
I am really glad to see that I already know and have implemented most of the suggestions on this list! Cover letters, in my opinion, are pretty hard to write. While I understand the basics in terms of structure and what to / not to include, I often feel that my cover letters are either generic or way too involved. Finding that middle ground is something of a delicate balance that I have not quite reached. However, with the rise of digital applications, cover letters seem to be falling to the wayside, at least a bit. Many of my applications did not ask for cover letters, but I attached them to my resume file, as it felt weird to apply without one. Without the cover letter, I am distilled into quantifiable aspects with no soul. No person is a bunch of numbers, we each have a life and a personality. That is what the cover letter should help to illustrate about us, so I hope that employers will not stop asking for them as digital applications become the new norm.
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