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Executive cover letters: Why getting personal gets results

June 28, 2010

At the executive level, communications skills are critical to success. So when top-level job candidates use a standard, impersonal-yet-professional cover letter template, they’re leaving a potential employer with some big doubts about their strategic communications acumen. Managers hiring for senior-level roles look for nuance throughout the recruiting process, seeking signs of high-level skills in negotiation, [...]

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Sample Cover Letter Template

August 20, 2009

The night hours bring me all kinds of tasks.  Last night, it was helping a friend write a cover letter. Cover letters are not a topic that I write about often.  In many ways, a cover letter is just a standard business letter.  But its specific purpose makes it a little more important than most [...]

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Sign of the times?: A job search don’t

May 11, 2009

photo credit: Thorne Enterprises Some sample Google searches: “write a resume” – 289,000 results “resume advice” – 103,000 results “cover letter advice” – 13,800 results There are thousands of sites providing advice on how to create an effective resume and cover letter. So much so that I think the topic gets too much focus – [...]

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Your job application: How to avoid the circular file

February 21, 2009

photo credit: jared Put yourself in any recruiter’s shoes right now.  You have ten job openings you’re trying to fill, and it seems like the entire nation wants these jobs.  You post a couple online, and suddenly you are getting a thousand applications every day.  Where do you start when selecting which candidates to interview? [...]

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