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10 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, May 23,1984 Section Two JOB TIPS How To Write An Effective Cover Letter By Barbara Wood Send a poorly written cover letter with your bril-. liant resume and both will end up in the wastebasket. The cover letter is the first glimpse of you that a potential potential employer gets. The impression impression it creates will remain remain in his mind and color any further judgments made about you and your ability to do the job. To write a cover letter that makes employers reach for your resume, follow these rules. Type an original cover letter for each resume you send. Consider an electric typewriter with a self correcting correcting key and a clear, unadorned unadorned pica or elite typeface, typeface, the standard for business business letters in the eighties. Letters that are mimeographed mimeographed or photocopied are insulting. They say, "You aren't worth the trouble of writing a fresh original." Use plain, high quality, 8Vz inch by 11 inch stationery. stationery. This is a business let- tèr, characterizing you as a sensible, reliable person. Make the letter clean, straightforward, and impeccably impeccably written. Spelling, grammar, sentence structure, structure, punctuation and format format should all be perfect. Before polishing a final version, version, show a clear intermediate intermediate draft to someone with editorial skill, such as a writer, English teacher, editor, or straight-A English English major, who can double-check double-check these details. One advantage of a self- correcting typewriter is that your corrections don't show painted lumps. Errors on chalky paper draw attention attention to themselves, advertising advertising a slipshod worker. Send the letter and resume resume to a person, not a company, company, office, department, or title. If you know someone within the company, ask him/her for an appropriate name. If you're starting from scratch, call the company company directly and ask for the name of an executive in the department in which you want to work. If you have a connection, ask for permission to use his or her name in the letter and use it in the first sentence. sentence. Whether your connection connection works for the company company or is an outsider with influence, that person's credentials credentials will be attributed to you by whomever reads your letter, to your advantage. advantage. If you don't have a connection, connection, your first sentence should tell the recipient how you found out about the job opening -- an industry source, a want ad, a posted notice. If you are simply mailing a stack of letters and resumes resumes haphazardly, use the first sentence to state your interest in a particular job, then describe your knowledge knowledge of the company. Don't be cute, naive, chatty, intimate, orstrident. The purpose of the cover letter is to convince the recipient recipient to read your resume. resume. Generally, your first paragraph should express interest in a specific position position and say that you've enclosed enclosed a resume. In the second second paragraph, establish your credentials and knowledge knowledge of the company. The third should request an interview. interview. These three paragraphs paragraphs are all you need. End the letter with a gracious gracious sentence, thanking the recipient for his or her consideration, followed by an appropriate closing. Consideration is a wonderfully wonderfully double-barreled word since it means both "sympathetic "sympathetic attention" and "evaluation." You get two meanings for the price of one and both are relevant. The form and neatness of your letter are as significant significant as the content. Follow these style standards: * Single-space all blocks of information. * After honing the letter, adjust your final copy so the text is centered and balanced balanced -- not jammed onto the top or bottom of the page. * Don't indent paragraphs or other blocks of information. information. * After the last paragraph, leave one line space and type your closing at the left margin, capitalizing only the first letter of the first word. Appropriate closings include "Sincerely," "Yours truly," "Very truly yours," and "Cordially." Place a comma after the last word of the closing, leave five line spaces, and type your name at the left margin. * Leave one space after your typed name and type "Enc." at the left margin to indicate you've sent an enclosure enclosure (your resume) with the letter. * Sign your name in blue or black pen -- and avoid the loops and little circles over the i's that you adopted in adolescence. The impact of a perfect cover letter can be destroyed by a flamboyant, overly idiosyncratic signature. signature. Your cover letter is just the first of many moves in a job search. Devote the same attention to it as you would to your resume and interview. interview. You may find that step leading you straight into the office of your choice! James Insurance DOUG JAMES ELEANOR DAMANT GAYLE WINDSOR 24 King St. East, BowmanvHle 623-4406 Competitive Prices CANADA NO. 1, BEEMAIO, DIETRICH, ASSORTED FLAVORS, MEAOOWGOIO OR SQUIRE 100% PURE VEGETABLE OIL, ELMGROVE ASSORTED VARIETIES, JAR EA 41 40 BHBMIjjjBii 1 2L CTN. 1 lb. TUB PKG MmmmM A./" : A'iAU V.-U;A'M AOWÜKfîi-U .Hi': ' AV';. ;i , '( * ■ • j -j V- i ! -V > U T; i" 1 V"A . ' - 1 i i.î. - yiv' AvA TO . - a;.:o n-pic «, -H» 5 0 V ■ : Æ'H : AOWt-h a iuo:: -i, V iW&^RWJDUCT or SOUTH AFRICA, jft^yCANADA NO. 1 GRADE, mÆSm HHTbARUNKA VARIETY, MOUNTAIN DEW OR ALL VARIETIES OF 750 mL BTL. Pepsi-Cola plus ,30 pep, per btl. 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