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Cover Letter Magic reveals the inside secrets for creating phenomenal cover letters that get noticed and land interviews. Step-by-step instructions throughout the book teach readers how to write, format, and distribute their cover letters for maximum impact. This extensive resource showcases more than 130 sample cover letters for all types of job seekers, including blue collar and trades, new graduate, mid-career professionals, senior managers and executives, and technical and scientific professions. Before-and-After transformations demonstrate how to turn a boring letter into a knockout. New content for this edition includes a chapter on recession-proofing your career and lifetime career management, as well as more sample electronic cover letters.
The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.
Teaches job seekers how to master essential steps in the job search process. As the definitive guide to resumes, it offers techniques proven to get results quickly; a friendly, easy-to-follow design; and rock-solid advice for creating outstanding resumes and cover letters and, more importantly, using them effectively.
Finally, a companion to the groundbreaking Step-by-Step Resumes workbook. Step-by-Step Cover Letters uses a foolproof system of paragraph starters and an overall framework to help readers easily build outstanding cover letters that will get interviews and job offers.
Brilliant Cover Letters is the definitive book on cover letters, it tells you the do's an do not's to make sure your cover letter stands out.
Want to write the perfect cover letter? But don't have time to read through a 300-page book first? Then "Get It Done" is for you. Here's why it's been a Kindle best-seller for six years in a row: 1) It's fast - The whole book takes about 30 minutes to read. 2) It's to the point - It breaks the cover letter down to 12 parts and gives you a precise template to complete for every single step. 3) It works - I developed this system while serving as a Recruiter for Teach For America. I've since taught it to MBAs as a Career Coach at the University of Michigan, leading to job offers from Apple, GE, Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Google. And the system has even been featured in U.S. News & World Report: http: //money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2015/01/21/5-cover-letter-cliches-that-make-employers-cringe So get your cover letter done today. And then get ready to land an awesome job next! What job seekers are saying... "If you're anything like me, you detest writing cover letters. This is a short, concise book that will quickly spell out the steps you need to take to write a solid, well-thought out cover letter." -Rebecca "This book was a a major benefit to my post-grad job search. I was struggling to portray some past experience to potential recruiters. I was hardly getting noticed and unable to land interviews; I was just another piece of paper in the deck. Jeremy's beneficial insight to the cover letter was against my traditional understanding. His direct nature and step by step guidance proved to be beneficial in my search. I was able to go through the book and develop a brand new cover letter from scratch in less than an hour. Given the price of the book and the time it takes to go through, there is absolutely no excuse why you shouldn't buy it right now and start fresh in conveying your background to your next employer." -LJ "If you, like me, hate writing cover letters, then this book is for you. Before reading this book, I was not even using cover letters because I thought they didn't matter, and I didn't know what to say. I just sent as many resumes as possible to as many job postings as possible. This book changed my life. It convinced me, no doubt one of the most shameless no-cover-letter resume spammers out there, to stop and write a cover letter. Plus Schifeling lays out a series of clear quick steps that make it easy and anxiety free." -Jane E Nevins What you'll get... -A sample cover letter using the exact same approach that the author and hundreds of others have used to land jobs from Amazon to Zynga -A cover letter template that's broken down into step-by-step chunks, making it easy to apply to your own application -The definitive cover letter format that recruiters and hiring managers prefer, based on actual recruiting and hiring experience
In a competitive job market, first impressions are vital. To get an interview you’re going to have to stand out and a well-executed cover letter is vital to ensure that you do not fall at the first hurdle. This book takes you through all the essential rules and high impact strategies to ensure your cover letter makes you stand out from the crowd. It takes a detailed look at the fifteen most common cover letter mistakes to ensure you do not make the errors that the competition will be, and covers everysituation from email and fax to speculative letters, career-development letters and advert-response letters.
Get the interview with professional correspondence! Completely updated for today's competitive job market, The Everything Cover Letter Book, 2nd Edition is what you need to get your foot in the door! With hundreds of resumes lined up for the job you want, it seems impossible to get yours to rise to the top of the pile. You need a superior cover letter to sell yourself when you're not there to do the talking. Make a memorable first impression and get the job you want with this authoritative reference as your guide. This new edition includes: 200 plus cover letters, revised for today's industries. Techniques to highlight the best qualities on your resume. Tips on industry trends. Savvy advice on how to grab your reader's attention. Detailed guidance on how to polish your letter to perfection. Formatting guidelines to follow for letters, emails, notes, and more. Dos and Don'ts based on specific job applications. With sample letters for every job seeker - from stay-at-home moms to traveling CEOs - The Everything Cover Letter Book, 2nd Edition is the only guide you'll need to land the job of your dreams!
