Friday, February 18, 2011

If your CV is the cake, your letter is the icing


Letter writing is a skill almost as important a job seeker to learn how to write a resume. The cover letter accompanies the resume at any time that the primary support document. If you are using mail, email, fax or other electronic filing, this should always be sent with the resume. There are of course other tools you can use in their job search. Your cover letter and resume pursued in the first place, of course, letters, thank-you letters for after the interview, reference sheets, salary histories, and letters of acceptance of employment. If you good cover letter writing and a good resume writing skills, writing other tools should be complementary to compose. 


Your goal in this is the hiring manager to make themselves aware of how your resume. The process and the format is a little different though. Your resume is all or most of his career, and 1-2 pages. Your cover letter will serve a very short page as an introduction to the resume. Letter writing style should be directly on point, and is able to capture the attention of the reader quickly to the reader that read the attached resume. 


Many people, when they participate in this kind of writing, have a tendency to say too much. Well-written letter is short and strong and have two or three main points of the resume and emphasize them. The old saying "tell them what we say, I say, then tell them what they said is true as long as resume writing and cover letter writing. 


As an example: Suppose you are a manager for the transport of a defense contractor, seeking another position. In his line of work the buzzwords are MRP, Lean Manufacturing, ISO 9000, and cost savings. Their efforts reflect in writing should face these keywords to your value to your current employer and potential employers. Your resume is more into detail on how to achieve this goal. The letter is simply out of the hiring manager that you make them. An example would be to say two paragraphs with bullets in the body of the letter .... 


• Experience in quality assurance and quality control, MRP, ISO 9000, QS 9000, and Lean Manufacturing. 
  
• Demonstration of the results in the saving of money, the entrepreneurs by the cost savings, lower inventory and schedule of the suppliers. 




The director of human resources, according to many polls, devotes only about 15 seconds on each resume and a letter from him or her comments. In this sense, your writing skills to get the class to that person to see your resume. need to write your CV to be good to give the readers would like an interview. In return, you should interview skills to managers in the personnel department, excellent offer for the contract. This positive long-chain type of events starts with a letter of good writing and ends with job satisfaction and good pay. 

1 comments:

yadhav said...

just linked this article on my facebook account. it’s a very interesting article for all.

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