...The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received Harvard Business Review – David Silverman - 1:18 PM Monday June 15, 2009 In my last post I talked about how to make your résumé more likely to catch the attention of a hiring manager. As a follow up, I'd like to discuss cover letters. Here's my basic philosophy on them: don't bother. That's because the cover letters I see usually fall into one of three categories: The recap: The résumé in prose form. It's redundant, harder to read than the résumé, and provides no additional insight. The form letter: This says, essentially, "Dear Sir or Madam: I saw your ad in the paper and thought you might like me." And it's clearly a form letter where maybe they got my name and company right. If they're lucky, I will still take the time to read their résumé after being insulted with a form letter. The "I'm crazy": This one's rare, and it expands on the résumé of experience with some personal insights. Examples range from the merely batty ("I find batik as an art form has taught me to become both a better person and project manager.") to the truly terrifying ("I cast a pentagram hex and the central line pointed towards your job listing. I know you will find this as comforting as I do.") There are really only a few times to use a cover letter: 1. When you know the name of the person hiring 2. When you know something about the job requirement 3. When you've been personally referred (which might include 1 and 2) Under those conditions...
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...1. Understand the Coachee’s Current KSAs. To better assist my coachee in this process, I will need to understand her level of knowledge regarding what a cover letter entails. I initially will ask Nevada to explain all of her knowledge, abilities, skills and accomplishments in her interior design field. Questions to help her develop these answers could be through creating a SWOT analysis. 2. Build Trust, Show Empathy, Active Listening and Influence During the coaching session, I plan on being patient with my coachee, and engaging in active listening. I will do so by making a conscious effort and while listening suspend judgment, resist distractions, waiting before responding and paraphrasing what I hear. 3. Mutually Agree on Behavioral and Results Objectives I intend to teach Nevada the proper purpose and use of a cover letter and why knowing how to compose a proper cover letter is so essential. By creating this understanding I will be able to better assist Nevada in creating her cover letter and reach the objectives that have been mutually agreed upon which include: o The coachee will be able to compose a well written cover letter that showcases her creativity o The coachee will be able to show employers why she would be the best candidate to hire for the particular position o The...
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...Heather Hefty Assignment 6 Worksheet (Resume and Cover Letter Analysis) Please write DETAILED paragraphs that summarize each document’s strengths and weaknesses, and then offer suggestions for revision (consider both content and design/organization). Please consider all of the discussion questions from the previous page, but do not just list out your answers to them. Don’t forget to COMPARE each candidate’s resume and cover letter, analyzing how they work together (or don’t). Resume 1 (Page 164, Anthony H. Jones) Strengths: Creative design that’s easy to read, Listed courses related to degree Weaknesses: Internship listed under education section, unclear of what he’s describing under references/webfolio section Revision Suggestions: Move internship description to Experience section, Bullet point and describe references/webfolio section Anthony’s design for his resume is creative and unique while still being easily readable which is a strength. I also like that under the Education section, he listed courses that relate to his degree so that an employer knows what he has experience with. A weakness with this resume is that he listed his internship under his Education section when it would be more appropriate to list it under his Experience section. Lastly, his References/Webfolio section lacks detail and organization. He should bullet point the different categories and explain what they are. Cover Letter 1 (Page 182, Anthony H. Jones) Strengths: Writes to...
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... |Click Here To Order | Designing and Using Questionnaires This is the information age. More information has been published in the last decade than in all previous history. Everyone uses information to make decisions about the future. If our information is accurate, we have a high probability of making a good decision. If our information is inaccurate, our ability to make a correct decision is diminished. Better information usually leads to better decisions. Ways to Get Information There are six common ways to get information. These are: literature searches, talking with people, focus groups, personal interviews, telephone surveys, and mail surveys....
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...I am going to conduct a SWOT analysis of a small business plan for a company called Southeast Racing Parts or SRP. I selected this business because I am an avid car enthusiast and on more than one of my cars that I have owned past and present was modified. I started my life long passion about car’s a couple of years before the first “Fast and the Furious” came out. The first paragraph will cover the letter “S”, the second paragraph will cover the letter “W”, the third paragraph will cover the letter “O”, and the last paragraph will cover the letter “T” to complete the SWOT analysis. This paragraph will cover the “S” that means strengths. The biggest strength I gathered from this company is that the owners have thirty years of experience between both of them. In communicating with some of my car enthusiast friends they all asked were, “How many years of experience does this company have in the automotive industry?” That in its own will increase sales and create a repeat business for this company. In the Jones’ business plan you can tell that they have done their research and personally received agreements from local and wholesale distributors. The fact that you will be able to provide the customer with a part or a service will be greatly beneficial for this company. The fact that they are starting their business as a husband and wife team will also lower the cost starting out having to pay employees. This paragraph will cover the “W” that means weakness....
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...BUSA 2105, Fall 2015 Sections 01 and 03 Communicating in the Business Environment Instructor: Melanie Strickland Brown Office: Howard Jordan – Room E-mail: brownme@savannahstate.edu Mobile/Text Msg: 912-398-9823 Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 5:00-6:00 p.m.or by phone/text most of the time COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will cover basic principles of effective business communication. Written communication components include reports, positive and negative letters, emails, and resumes and cover letters. Oral communication components include brief summaries of exercises, a mock interview, a team presentation, and meeting management skills. Also, the class will cover cross-cultural communication, personal interaction skills, and business etiquette with a focus on electronic communication. Written documents and oral presentations must include correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. PREREQUISITES: 1. You must have successfully completed (grade C or better) CSCI/CISM 1130, Computer and Its Applications. 2. You must have successfully completed (grade C or better) ENGL 1102, English Composition II. Remember: You are responsible for insuring that you have met the prerequisite requirements. If you are on the official roll of this course, you are certifying that you have satisfactorily completed these prerequisites prior to enrolling in BUSA 2105. If, at any time, we discover that this certification is invalid, you will be withdrawn...
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...IMBA PROGRAM RESUME WORKSHOP November 2002 Stanford Lin Project Manager MIT-China Management Education Project ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Selected portions of this presentation have been reprinted from materials published by the Career Development Office of MIT Sloan and the Career Services Office of Harvard Business School. Outline Resumes • • • • • Resume Purpose Resume Preparation and Format Resume Tips Special Concerns Common Mistakes Cover Letters • Cover Letter Purpose • Cover Letter Preparation and Format • Common Mistakes Resume Purpose 1. Presentation of yourself targeted to an employer’s needs 2. Document that emphasizes transferable skills such as teamwork, analytical abilities, leadership and management 3. Marketing tool that distinguishes you from your peers Resume Preparation • Perform a self-assessment – Review every previous job or activity for responsibilities and impact – Identify your transferable skills and the skills desired by the target employer – Try to develop numerical values for your accomplishments • Good framework for each job – Problem identified – Action(s) taken – Result(s) achieved Create “PAR” statements Resume Preparation • Problem identified Declining revenue in Guangdong. Company management wants to exit from the Guangdong market. • Action taken Did market survey. Looked at products’ strengths and weaknesses relative to competition’s products. Talked with salespeople. Discovered salespersons’ commission plan...
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...stimulation Vivid language Narration Telling a single story or several related stories Beginning, middle, end Exemplification Illustration with examples Specific examples Division-Classification Logical ordering of a complex situation Division ( single unit or concept, breaking the unit into parts and analyzing the parts and the whole Classification ( put two or more related items together and categorize them according to type or kind Process-Analysis Technique that explains the steps or sequence in doing something Satisfies our need to learn as well as our curiosity of how it works Comparison-Contrast Analyze similarities and differences Helps to make choices Cause-Effect Casual analysis Choice and consequence Why does one thing cause something else to happen? Definition What something means Takes apart an idea and explains all parts of the idea Persuasion Convince reader the soundness of a particular opinion on a controversial issue When emotion is used, it is called persuasion When logic is used, it is called argumentation PRODUCT The Product is what the final version will be....
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...For my document analysis I have chosen a personal letter called the Wickedness of Government in New Mexico by Fran Carlos Jose Delgado. This personal letter was created on March 27, 1750. The letter was written in a hospice of Santa Barbara of the pueblo of Tlatelolco. Fray Carlos Jose Delgado is a “preacher general, commissary, notary, and censor of the conversion of San Pablo of this province of El Santo Evangelio in the kingdom of New Mexico”.The purpose of this letter is to inform the people and the Crown of Spain that in New Mexico, the eleven governors and many alcaldes mayores are abusing, mistreating and are being unjustified with the native people who have just been received and converted into their religion by the Church. This is causing them to turn...
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... Task-1(p1) Class Teacher: Hemuna Pather-carr 1a) Produce a two- column table listing in column 1 the main documents the organisation might use for recruitment. In Column 2, write an explanation of the use of each of the documents.(p1) 1. | Job Advertisements | It is notice of job vacancy which is offered by companies and institutions. It states the name of new company. It also mentions how to apply for the job and salary. It also provides the job is part time or full time. | 2. | CV (Curriculum Vitae) | CV is the most important part or a job. Cv provides an overview of a person’s experience educational qualification as well as personal details. It also provides names and contact details of 2 referees’ | 3. | Application Form | An application for employment, job application, or application form (often simply called an application).Employee need to collect it from employer and he should complete the form with true information about his experience educational history, skill, communication skill, emergency contact no, house address, email id, reference, disability, age. The form may also require the applicant to disclose any criminal record. | 4. | Job Description | A job description is a list that a person might use for general tasks, or functions, and responsibilities of a position. Job descriptions are required for recruitment so that the applicants can understand...
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...and focus your career search efforts, as well as develop your leadership, teamwork and communication skills required to position your career for success. All students are required to complete SMBA 0010 - Successful completion of this course will result in a ― S (satisfactory) grade on your transcript. The Professional Skills Course is delivered through a series of workshops, assignments, individual and group activities, guest lecturers, panel discussions and personalized one-to-one coaching cumulating in students presenting their Personal Career Strategy Plan in their final year of study. Learning Objectives 1. Utilize self-assessment tools to identify what skills, abilities and knowledge you offer and what career paths best match them. 2. Create a MBA professional resume, cover letter and “value proposition” statement. 3. Write impactful cover letters and other job search letters. 4. Develop strong interview skills. 5. Build your on-line Personal Brand through LinkedIn. Assignment 1 Career Leader Career Leader is a self-assessment tool developed by current and past Directors of Career Services at the Harvard Business School specifically for MBA students and used by over 100 of the world’s top MBA schools. You may be like many students entering business school who do not have a specific and clearly defined career objective. Career Leader will provide valuable feedback to you on what careers and organizational cultures are mostly likely a good fit for you. Career Leader consists...
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...grateful indebted for their support and I would like to express my special thanks to: Special dedication to my supervisor and my Personal Tutor at Leicester University Mr Pawas Bisht for his guidance and invaluable advice and constant encouragement. Andy Kapadia who was a helpful and perfect liaison between me and the university. I would not have made it this far without Mr Pawas and Andy’s help. I would also like to thank Mr Kamwaro of The Standard Library and Eric Njoka of Daily Nation’s for the cooperation they accorded me during the long hours I spent at their libraries. This work would have made no sense with the input of The Daily Nation Newspaper’s news editor Eric Shimoli and Senior reporter John Ngirach as well as the Standard’s Foreign Editor Andrew Kipkemboi and Senior reporter Cyrus Ombati. Through candid interviews these respected journalists gave me invaluable information. Finally I would like to express special thanks to all the other people, whose names are not listed here, for their help and willingness to explain their opinion, and to share their stories. ABSTRACT The study is a content analysis of The Daily Nation and The Standard newspapers in Kenya; the two leading dailies with widest range of coverage. It examines how the print media covered the Kenyan military incursion into Somalia in 2011. Content analysis was supplemented by in-depth interviews from the editors of both newspapers under study and journalists who covered the incursion...
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...An Analysis of Interview Process in Synnex International Student name: Registration Number: An Analysis of Interview Process in Synnex International Having posted a current job opening, Synnex International is looking to hire a Human Resource manager with the necessary skills to handle the responsibilities of managing job related affairs of the company’s personnel. Collins & Han (2004) explain that a job description should be simple enough and appeal to a large number of qualified candidates. After advertising the job opening, the Director of Human Resources at Synnex International announced that the company had successfully received job applications from a large number of qualified candidates. The following essay elaborates on the interviewing process overseen by Synnex International’s Director of Human Resource Services. The first activity involves undertaking a process of reviewing the resumes and cover letters of potential job candidates. According to Sanders & Rochon (2006), the resume of a Human Resource manager should elaborate on a manager’s experience and level of knowledge with regard to Human Resource policies and practices, and how to effectively implement them in an actual work setting. A resume screening process involves weeding out candidates whose resume does not stand out (Eischen, 2007).Under strict supervision by the Director of Human Resource services, a team of external consultants will perform the resume screening process which will majorly...
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...LOG OM 5300 Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions Syllabus Spring 2013 Section G01 (11477): T 1855-2135, 132 SSB Instructor: Dr. Alan C. Wheeler Office: ESH 230, 516-6136, awheel@umsl.edu Office hours: MW 1230-1330; T 1400-1500, 1745-1845; or by appointment Text: Statistics for Business and Economics, revised 11th edition, by David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, and Thomas A. Williams, South-Western Calculator: hand-held with keys for natural logarithm, mean, and standard deviation Course Description: The role of statistical evidence in the formation of inference and in the selection of strategies in solving business problems is developed. Probability and probability distributions are studied as a basis of statistical inference. An introduction to multivariate analysis is provided, which includes analysis of variance and regression methods. Specifically, the course covers in order most of the material in the following chapters of the text: Chapter Topic 1 Data and Statistics 2 Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Presentations 3 Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures 4 Introduction to Probability 5 Discrete Probability Distributions 6 Continuous Probability Distributions 7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions 8 Interval Estimation 9 Hypothesis Tests 10 Statistical Inference About Means and Proportions With Two Populations 11 Inferences About Population Variances 12 Tests of Goodness of Fit...
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...COVER LETTER Dear Sir/Madam, I have Over 6 years of experience in group financial accounting & Financial Management in varied industry area including month end and year end consolidated reports, balance sheet reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, budgeting and forecasting, GST/BAS and payroll tax, cash flow reporting and variance analysis. As my resume highlights, I have expertise in range of accounting areas, including the following: * Reconciliation and expense reporting * Budget creation, cost analysis, and forecasting * Vendor relations * Accounts payable and accounts receivable * Financial statements and preparation * Business accounting process improvements * Month-end analysis and reconciliation * Non-profit accounting principles * Microsoft office and leading financial software * Reporting and documentation * General ledger audits and entries My key job responsibilities in my present capacity as senior accountant include, among others, the following: * Prepare and submit annual budget. * Audit expenses & adjust for allowable reimbursements. * Management of grant accounting activities; monitoring and submitting detailed reports of financial activities to grant donors; keeping a track of incoming funds and preparing monthly income statements vs. outgoing expenses spreadsheets. * Evaluate effectiveness of business processes and give recommendations for improvement...
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