Sweet Job Tips: Cover Letter Job Tips to Improve Your Job Search

This week's Job Search Tips:

Job Search Success Strategies

Strong Cover Letter Tips

 

11 Components Needed for a Powerful

Cover Letter to Get Noticed

1. Contact information area

2. Date

3. Inside address (mailing address, with verified title and spelling)

4. Reference line

5. Salutation

6. Intro paragraph

7. Value-selling paragraph

8. Background summary with education and experience

9. Call to action statement/Closing paragraph

10. Appreciation statement/Complementary closing/Signature

11. Enclosures

You really have to "clinch the deal" within the first 15 seconds. Roughly speaking, that equates to the first paragraph. The trick is to try and differentiate yourself and your correspondence from all the other candidates vying for the position.

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his is an excerpt from my recently released book, The NEW Rules of Job Search - How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy, page 61.

 

I look forward to helping our land that next great job you are looking for in 2013!

Have a great week and week-end.

Take care,

Eleanor

Your Executive Job Search Expert  TM

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Happy Christmas and New Year!