How to Write a Success Cover Letter

1) Introduction

Who is deceived finds that to write cover letter is a big mistake. Each time more recruiters have little time to read resumes that daily arrives at their hands. Recently, a great multinational company located in São Paulo, Brazil, announced a vacancy in newspaper and received 17,000 resumes. Imagines at a moment where companies are always reducing its headcount, who will read all its? Of course, gets to imagine that those that, quickly to get more attention will be pre selected ones. And is much more easy to read a letter than a resume. Thus being a well-written letter will make difference. Moreover, passed pre- qualification, when same one will be read with well- taken care of, it will be able to show some important points about you. It will show: a)if you communicate yourself well; b)your easiness and domain of written language; c)resumes capacity; d)your professionalism; e)aspects of your personality; f)if you are detailer; g)how much you are oriented for position.

2) Basic points of a cover letter.

a) Headline One more time, taking in consideration speed with that recruiters will go to select resumes of a specific process, first phrase will have to be of impact, that one will get more attention of recruiter. It uses your better result in this item.

b) Description of responsibilities and/or main results. Your responsibilities description and main ones of your career written is necessary a criteria selection process of ones, looking for beyond those most important ones, and that more have to see with position in question. Therefore, it is necessary to know one that is applicant yourself. It keeps focus in vacancy where you are interested.

c) Talk about your qualities Your letter must present you, therefore it speaks about how much you will be able to make for company and not how much company can make for you.

d) Conclusion. The end, you will have to request a meeting for an interview. Just to write letter and not to present conclusion, interviewer could be in doubt on its desire.

e) Addresses for contact Keeps yours addresses for contact clearly (telephones, email, etc). It prevents to place them in baseboard with very small types.

3) Tips to write your letter

Landing a telecommute position isn’t easy. Finding them in first place is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Then, when you finally do find one that looks promising, it’s filled before you can even click on “apply for this job”.

Why are they so few and far between anyway? Don’t employers realize benefits of allowing their employees to telecommute; less sick time, increased productivity, lower overhead, and so forth?

The truth is that you’d be surprised to know just how many companies do hire telecommuters. Most of them simply don’t want to advertise those openings on Internet.

But it’s not all bad news. There are three very important rules that you should follow when pursuing a telecommute job. If you do, your chances of getting hired will be much greater. If you break them, your chances are about as good as winning lottery.

Rule #1: Don’t apply to positions that you aren’t qualified for.

As owner of 2Work-At-Home.com, I spend a great deal of my time trying to convince employers to post their telecommute job openings on our site. That’s no easy feat either, and I’ll tell you why: Most of them have to be convinced that there are quality applicants visiting our site.

One of most common reasons employers give for not posting their telecommute listings on Internet is that people who are not at all qualified for opening apply for them.

Put yourself in recruiter’s shoes. You need to hire a person that can translate a company’s training manual into German. So, you post your listing for a German Translator and specify that you’re looking for someone who is fluent in English and German.

Your listing goes up and BAM! You’re immediately flooded with responses. As 237 messages are downloading, you marvel at number of people who are fluent in German. As you start opening messages, your excitement turns to annoyance when you see your first three responses:

“I can’t speak German, but I’m a fast learner.”

“Dear Recruiter, A solid background in Widget Sales makes me perfect candidate for your position.”

“Send Info”

Nobody likes to waste their time, and when a recruiter posts a listing and only gets 1 in 100 responses that are worth looking at, it’s counterproductive for them.

I know for a fact that some of our site visitors go through job listings and methodically apply to every listing in database, no matter what position is.

This “throw your resume at every employer and hope one sticks” approach not only makes applicant look desperate, but it gives entire telecommute job-seeking community a bad name. It also brings us to next Rule…..

Rule #2: Follow application instructions.