The Importance of Cover Letters

Here at Job-Centre-Vacancies we rarely recommend products but Amazing Cover Letters is actually a very useful tool that will save you the hassle of writing a bespoke cover letter for each job application...it will do it for you!

The biggest problem with resumes is that they are typically generic in their layout and content making it difficult to really sell your qualities and we all know how important first impressions are so a good cover letter is the only way to get your foot in the door of that job interview.

An original and thought-provoking cover letter is also a must if your CV is lacking:

You got the best qualifications but you have no practical experience and little in the way of extra-curricular activities. Your CV is looking a bit thin on the ground. If you go the right way about it, your cover letter will make up for these inadequacies.

But how do you go about writing this killer cover letter? What is the secret behind this simple and yet very powerful statement of intent? What will grab the recruiter’s attention and hold it?

This is the story of how my nephew got an interview just 4 days after his graduation ceremony and the job offer a day later. He attributes his success to Amazing Cover Letters, a piece of software that builds a killer cover letter for you. I was sceptical at first but I was made to eat my words.

“I took Maths & Business Studies at uni but realised soon after I started that this was the wrong choice for me. I had enjoyed maths and school but at university I found it dull and impractical and thus my enthusiasm and effort began to wane.

But I was enjoying the rest of uni life too much to quit and couldn’t change degrees so I just stayed on the course and tried to maintain my interest as best I could. It didn’t work out quite as well as I hoped and I ended up with a 2.2 degree class. Add to this the fact that I hadn’t really got much experience or any notable extra-curricular additions to my CV and I was looking at an tough time job-hunting.

I went to speak to my careers service at Warwick Uni and the guy who I spoke to suggested that I try to sell myself with a cover letter. He gave me some hints and tips and together we wrote what seemed to me to be a good selling point that would get me the job interviews I was after.

When I applied for more jobs with the new cover letter attached I was full of hope. But this soon turned to despair as the situation remained the same as before. I realised that the advice he had given me was the same advice he had given to hundreds of other students. How was I supposed to stand out?

I stopped thinking about it for a while and concentrated the best I could on my final exams. It wasn’t until after my graduation in the summer that I went back and read my cover letter again. It seemed ok, nothing special though and certainly nothing that would help me stand out.

I scoured the internet trying to find tips on how I could improve it but found nothing but generic advice that seemed irrelevant much of the time. That is until I stumbled upon Amazing Cover Letters.

The sales page for this software did seem a bit over the top but I persevered and purchased a copy. It had a money-back guarantee and I was fully expecting to have to take them up on that offer. How wrong I was.

The software doesn’t write the complete cover letter for you but does provide outstanding templates that do everything but add the finishing touches. The 3-step approach takes into consideration the type of cover letter you want, the size of the application pool (i.e. how many people you are up against) and finally the level of experience you have.

It takes less than a minute to do this and the software spits out a template for you to add your personal touch to. Not only this, but it will give you some great, provocative sentences to truly finish your cover letter off.

I created a few different cover letters and read through each several times before settling on the one I thought most likely to grab the employer’s attention.

Later that day I applied to 4 more jobs with this cover letter attached. To my surprise, I got a phone call the next day asking me if I would come in for an interview. I was astonished at this 25% success rate.

The interview went really well and within a week of my graduation I had a job! I am sure this would never have happened had my cover letter not been so good. It convinced me that Amazing Cover Letters was the best $39.95 I have ever spent.

I only wish I had managed to have a holiday before my job started but beggars can’t be chosers!”

Now I know this is just one case study of what a cover letter can do for you but it really made me sit up and think. If he can get a job with a pretty poor CV, imagine how well it would work if your CV was even a little bit more compelling.

I tried Amazing Cover Letters out when my nephew bought it and it looked to be well put together and professionally written. If I ever need to apply for a job again I will definitely be using it to produce a cover letter.

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