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Article: Compelling cover letter can be the key to getting an interview
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 11, 2004
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Eager to snare a hot job opening, you quickly scribble a cover
letter and attach it to your flawless resume.
Too bad. You probably just blew your chance to be hired. Your
hastily written missive missed the mark -- and you misspelled the
target company's name.
A great cover letter is the golden key to any job search. Yet
despite a glut of advice books and Web sites, an estimated 85 percent
of cover letters are so flawed that senders never land an interview,
career coaches say. Even experts err. An "ideal" letter sent to me by
one career counselor contained this sentence fragment in the first
paragraph: "With a great deal of interest."
Looking elsewhere for how to craft a compelling cover ...