In a competitive job market, first impressions are vital. To get an interview you're going to have to stand out and a well-executed cover letter is vital to ensure that you do not fall at the first hurdle.
This book takes you through all the essential rules and high impact strategies to ensure your cover letter makes you stand out from the crowd. It takes a detailed look at the fifteen most common cover letter mistakes to ensure you do not make the errors that the competition will be, and covers everysituation from email and fax to speculative letters, career-development letters and advert-response letters.
About the author
Acknowledgements
How to use this book
Part 1 Laying the foundations
1. Why are cover letters so important?
2. Getting the basics right
Part 2 Job-hunting letters
3. Speculative letters: your foot in the door
4. Advert-response letters: a winning strategy
Part 3 Specialist cover letters
5. Letters of application for specialist sectors
Part 4 The 15 most common cover letter mistakes
6. How to avoid them!
Part 5 Other job search letters
7. Application follow-up letters
8. Interview thank-you letters
9. Negotiating an offer
10. Requesting a reference
11. Resignation letters
12. Offer acceptance letters
13. Rejecting an offer
14. Accepting rejection
Part 6 Pay rise request letters
15. Requesting a pay rise
Part 7 Promotion request letters
16. Requesting a promotion
Part 8 CVs and interviews
17. CVs
18. Interviews
Part 9 My five top tips to make your cover letter stand out
19. How to make your cover letter stand out!
20. Checklist
Further reading and resources
Appendix A: 250 action verbs
Appendix B: 50 positive adjectives
Appendix C: 222 commonly misspelled words
Index
