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Article: COVER LETTER: OUT IN FRONT
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- June 25, 2006
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fter you have created a strong and polished resume, it's time to
focus on another important -- and often overlooked -- part of every
application. While your resume might win rave reviews from friends
and family, it could be destined for the bottom of the applicant pile
if the hiring manager can't get past the cover letter.
"The value of a cover letter is overlooked at least 75 percent of
the time," said Gene Whorl of Career Associates in Evansville.
The goal of a resume is to persuade a company to invite you for an
interview; likewise, the job of a cover letter is to sell your
resume, Whorl said. The most successful job hunters treat a cover
letter as a sales pitch, written with the ...