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
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A LETTER TO THE BANK MANAGER This letter was received by a bank and printed in an American newspaper. Although this case is a letter from a customer of an American bank, it highlights the frustrations commonly experienced by customers of British banks. In July 2002 British Members of Parliament heavily criticised the high street banks for running a monopoly, overcharging and giving poor customer service. “I am writing to thank you for bouncing the cheque with which I endeavoured to pay
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Turns to Love I didn't want to depart my home town, which I've been settling ever since the day I was born. Neither do I want to leave my school, relatives, and most importantly my best friend Samuel. Sam and I had been best friends since elementary school. I still recall the day when we first met; it was the first day of grade 1 and we were in the same class. Unintentionally I collided with his head trying to reach for my pencil that had been knocked out on the floor. Fortunately I didn’t know that
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Killer Cover Letters & Resumes! WetFeet Insider Guide by Rosanne Lurie The WetFeet Research Methodology You hold in your hands a copy of the best-quality research available for job seekers. We have designed this Insider Guide to save you time doing your job research and to provide highly accurate information written precisely for the needs of the job-seeking public. (We also hope that you’ll enjoy reading it, because, believe it or not, the job search doesn’t have to be a pain in the neck
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an unexpected power outage at our company for the past 4 days,we won’t be able to deliver the same on time.It also includes recovery of lost work. Hence, there will be an overall delay of about 7 days. We are trying hard to manage this problem and I assure you that this kind of problems will not recur again. Yours faithfully, XYZ Dear Gill Roy, The project “Payment processing system” was scheduled to be delivered on 10th May (Friday). However, due to an unexpected power outage in our
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The media’s watching Vault! Here’s a sampling of our coverage. “For those hoping to climb the ladder of success, [Vault's] insights are priceless.” – Money magazine “The best place on the web to prepare for a job search.” – Fortune “[Vault guides] make for excellent starting points for job hunters and should be purchased by academic libraries for their career sections [and] university career centers.” – Library Journal “The granddaddy of worker sites.” – US News and World Report “A killer app
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usually prepared for job applications (L, lit.: the course of one's life). Another name for a CV is a résumé. A CV is the most flexible and convenient way to make applications. It conveys your personal details in the way that presents you in the best possible light. A CV is a marketing document in which you are marketing something: yourself! You need to "sell" your skills, abilities, qualifications and experience to employers. It can be used to make multiple applications to employers in a specific
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Watkins—Revelations of a Letter Who Is Sherron Watkins? Sherron Watkins gained fame as the so-called “whistle-blower” in the Enron accounting scandal. “Enron hid billions of dollars in debts and operating losses inside private partnerships and dizzyingly complex accousnting schemes that were intended to pump up the buzz about the company and support its inflated stock price.” Watkins wrote two letters, one anonymously, to Enron’s chairman, Kenneth Lay. In those letters she “exposed top officials—perhaps
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Salinger, and Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsb by Scott Fitzgerald. Each of these characters encounters different processes of coming of age. When these characters process of maturation and coming of age are compared, the most relevant coming of age best exhibited by Holden from The Catcher in the Rye, following with Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird and Mr. Gatsby from The Great Gatsby; however, differences in coming of age are apparent in the different time periods of each novel setting, practicality
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Hawthorne's background influenced him to write the bold novel The Scarlet Letter. One important influence on the story is money. Hawthorne had never made much money as an author and the birth of his first daughter added to the financial burden ("Biographical Note" VII). He received a job at the Salem Custom House only to lose it three years later and be forced to write again to support his family (IX). Consequently, The Scarlet Letter was published a year later (IX). It was only intended to be a long short
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