Cover Letter for job application

Cover Letter

Following are some of the tips to write a good cover letter

• The cover letter should be written on a white bond paper.
• As a practice the cover letter should be only of one page.
• The heading of the cover letter should be identical to the resume heading where, headings include your name and contact details.
• A business format should be used for dating and addressing your cover letter to the appropriate person.
• The cover letter salutation should start with “Dear Mr. ABC:” or “Dear Mrs. XYZ:”. In case you do not know the marital status of the female interviewer, the use “Dear Ms. XYZ:”
• Use a colon after the name and not a comma.
• The resume cover letter is a business letter, so formal paragraphs block with spaces in between should be used.
• Avoid grammatical error in the cover letter
• Be brief and do not exaggerate in the cover letter
• The cover letter should be addressed to correct person only.
• It should be focused on the skills, qualification and other relevant information as needed by the job opening for which the cover letter is intended for.

Resume cover letters may also serve as marketing devices for prospective job seekers. Cover letters are used in connection with many business documents such as loan applications (mortgage loan), contract drafts and proposals, and executed documents. The MIT Sloan School of Management requests a cover letter as part of its MBA admission application. Cover letters may serve the purpose of trying to catch the reader’s interest or persuade the reader of something, or they may simply be an inventory or summary of the documents included along with a discussion of the expected future actions the sender or recipient will take in connection with the documents. – Wikipedia

Few sample letters

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