Write Job Resume Cover Letter II

A good way to start writing is with the correct greeting phrase. If you know the name of the person you are addressing then you can start with ‘Dear Ms. Stevenson’ or ‘Dear Mr. Washington’. Do not use their first names. A bad greeting would be ‘Hi Jane’ or ‘Hello George’.

The first paragraph in job resume cover letter is to contain a reference. If this is a response to an advertisement or a vacancy listing, this is where you refer to get their attention. Alternatively you can put in a separate line mentioning your reference.

If you’re mentioning your job reference in the first paragraph, you can continue on to include why you applied for that position. A good way of connecting the reference to your application is “my skills and your requirement are a good match.” Put that in your own words.

In the next paragraph, you justify your statement about why you think that your skills and the skills required for the position are a good match. Make a single line reference to a particular achievement in your current (or previous) job that is along similar lines so that the employer will know exactly what he’s looking for. A good example would be “Set up a fully operational network of franchisees in Southern France for retailing ABC Coffee”.

Avoid mentioning job skills you don’t have or projects you have never worked on. Because sooner or later, you’re going to face it; when the job interviewer looks into your cover letter (or resume) and says “OK, Mr. Stephens, can you give me an instance of how you can use XML to port data from a backend system into a Middleware application”? And that’s when you mind starts racing, “XML?? Middleware?? Port..?? Is that my resume he’s got..???”. God bless you if it’s not your resume.

If there are more achievements you want to include, write them down in bulleted points. It’s easier for the employer to read, comprehend and get a good picture of your capabilities. Do not reproduce your entire resume here. 2 or 3 such points will do perfectly fine. Of course, do not include irrelevant achievements like “Won a Silver Medal in 200 x 4 Men’s Relay Race conducted by Louisville Young Adults Club in 1991”. Not unless you’re applying for the post of a Physical Trainer or Coach.

You have made your point here. You know why you’re applying. And recruiters like that. You know your responsibilities, the risks involved and the tasks you’ll be handling. You’re just the person they’re looking for. At least, you’re one of the persons they’d like to talk to before handing over the employment contract.

An ending note can make quite an impression. Tell them your resume is attached and that you’re “looking forward to explore this opportunity further”. Include an address and telephone number for them to contact you.

Sign off with a “Yours Truly” or “Best Regards” and put your complete name under it.

Get into form and write out your winning cover letter.

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Write Job Resume Cover Letter I

Job Cover Letters :: Are you telling them what they want to know?

Let’s face it. Recruiters (or employers) are smarter than we think. Bigger organizations pay a hefty salary to their HR department to filter out and sieve through hundreds and thousands of resumes. The idea is to build an organization with people of the right mental aptitude. Most of the top organizations believe strongly in a motto – “People are their greatest assets”. Your super job cover letter goes a long way in capturing and retaining the attention of these people whose main job is to recruit people and coordinate with the workforce.

A well-written job cover letter engages the recruiter and pushes him to spend more time reading your detailed resume. Before you start off writing your cover letter, write down what you want to convey on a paper. Read it once, twice, thrice and then set off for a good start. Pack in as much power as you can, because it is these 400 or 500 words that can make the difference.

Have these things on your mind before you start off writing:

Keep your sentences short and avoid using really long sentences because you don’t want the recruiter to read it twice to understand what you’re trying to convey. Got the point.? Keep your sentences s-h-o-r-t.

Keep your language simple. “I take immense pleasure in applying for this esteemed position in this esteemed organization.” Hell.! Your employer knows more about his organization than you do. So you can as well cut the “false” praise. Maybe a subtle mention can do wonders. “I look forward to work with JK Industries”.

Organize the content of your job cover letter into small paragraphs or bulleted points, not exceeding three paragraphs. Typically each paragraph can contain 3 or 4 sentences.

Do NOT use slang or spoken words like “Lookin’ fo a kewl break into yo IT world”.

Make sure your cover letter (and resume) is free from spelling or grammatical errors.

And most important: Deliver what the employer is looking for.

So, what should you put in your cover letter?

Ask yourself two questions. One, why should the employer choose you over others? And two, what can you give to the company that others cant? Skills, yes. Proven job experience, better.

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Business Lessons from Vince Lombardi

Vince Lombardi is one of the most honored men in the history of the National Football League and the trophy/award given to each Super Bowl winning team is named in his honor.

Here is his most famous speech:

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that’s first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

Every time a football player goes to play his trade he’s got to play from the ground up – from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That’s O.K. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization – an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win – to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don’t think it is.

It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That’s why they are there – to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules – but to win.

And in truth, I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

I don’t say these things because I believe in the ‘brute’ nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour – his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear – is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he’s exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”

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Ken Keller – Books

I have written two books that are available for purchase.

“Breaking Down The Walls: Ideas For Advancing Your Business” and

“Improvise. Adapt. Overcome: More Ideas For Advancing Your Business”

Below is a chapter from one of the books so you can see if it is something you can gain from the investment:

“This is the Hardest Job I’ve ever had.”

PRECAP

1. When was the last time you learned something of significance to improve your business?

2. Are you doing just the right things or just everything?

3. Do you have other measures of success besides profit?

During the course of a day I give thanks for all that I have; in fact, I do it every night before I fall asleep. I am particularly grateful that I have my own business.

Many people I know would never even consider starting a business. I know many that have tried and were unsuccessful and then went back to working for someone else.

Having survived, prospered, and grown my business for over a dozen years, allow me to share some lessons I have learned along the way.

Learn to adapt

When you start a business, you usually have some idea as to what you will do and who the customers might be. Then, reality sets in.

What you thought was reality turns out to be something quite different. You cannot afford to be inflexible. You need to be willing to give a lot. You have to be willing and open to change.

Understand that the marketplace is constantly changing. Sure, some things never change (taxes, death, going to school). To survive and prosper, you must learn to adapt.

Keep thinking dinosaurs. Do you want to end up like one?

Be persistent

I have on the wall of my office: “Press On: Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

The mark of someone going places is persistence. I often think about and refer to Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman when I am writing my weekly articles. Each of them faced many adversities. Yet, each became successful because they were persistent. They stayed the course.

What is your course and will you stick with it?

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Be a learning machine

For a short time, I had a partner in business. When we opted to go our separate ways, he moved to Atlanta and took a job with an advertising agency. He emailed me less than a year later to tell me he had resigned his position to start another business. He asked if I had any advice for him and I suggested that he “learn to sell.”

He told me that he already knew how. I heard later this business had failed and that he took yet another job, moving his family for a second time in just over a year, this time in Pittsburgh.

I heard again that he left this job and moved to Canada. I suppose he never did learn to sell. He did, however, learn to interview well.

In those intervening years, I learned that there were certain things I needed to know. Some of these I learned the hard way, others I learned without having to endure much pain.

During the course of these last eight years, I learned more about business, life, and relationships than at any other time of my life. I am wiser, kinder, more patient, and understanding than before. I also do not suffer fools gladly.

I knew before I left my safe and secure job in Corporate America that I had a low tolerance for people who didn’t “get it” and less for the people that did, and then didn’t do anything about it.

They do not teach you these things in college. I know this from personal experience; one of the ways I learn is to teach college classes.

What have you learned lately of consequence to your business or life?

Do it anyway

I was quite amused to hear a client describe how several recently downsized individuals were planning to start a business. They just assumed that they would “bring in some administrative support” to help them. In Corporate America, you can get away with that.

In your own business, you do everything. I do mean everything. I make coffee, lug bottled water, arrange pastry on plates, paint, clean carpets, take out the trash…you get the idea.

None of these things I particularly wanted to do. But I did them anyway.

I have learned that you need to “do it anyway” when it has to be done.

What do you take care of that must be done, however distasteful for your business?

Life on the edge

If you have ever had your own business, you know the feeling when a client says that last week the check was mailed, and your checking account is a little bit overdrawn.

Perhaps you have wakened in the dark and quiet of the night and you wonder what you will tell your spouse when it looks a little tight for the holidays … and the house payment next month.

When you have your own business, you live on the edge. Until you take stock of your situation and learn what you do not know so you can avoid the pain, you will be sitting on the razor’s edge.

It only hurts when you stay for more than a second, or two.

Are you on the edge and what are you going to do about it?

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Ken Keller,
Invest 5 Hours

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