Video: Tips on Cover Letters on Job Placement Sites

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Job placement sites can be an invaluable tool if you use them properly. Get tips on cover letters on job placement sites with help from an executive recruiter and career counselor in this free video clip.

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Welcome. I'm Bruce Hurwitz, President and CEO of Hurwitz Strategic Staffing. You can find me on the web at www.hsstaffing.com. Our topic today is tips on cover letters on job placement sites. Really doesn't matter where the cover letter is posted. If you're going to put it on a job placement site, on a company's website. There are many companies that have career pages. You can apply online through their website. If the website has a set format you just follow the format. It's as simple as that. The purpose of any cover letter is to get the recipient to read the resume. You don't know if they're actually going to look at your cover letter. Assume they will. What you have to show them is that you have excellent presentation skills in a concise way. Three, four, five sentences. That's all. You can convince them to look at your resume and you do that by differentiating yourself from your competition. The focus has to be on that one thing that you've done that nobody else has done. That one thing of which you're most proud that speaks to the position you're applying for. Let me show you what I mean. This is a cover letter. One, two, three, four paragraphs. The first paragraph says what you're applying for and where you heard about it. The second paragraph is that one thing that differentiates you. In this case, it's a VP of HR who was able to lower grievances from an annual average of fifty to zero, as well as to successfully conduct fifteen union elections. That's all my client needed to hear. We continue on. "Attached is a copy of my resume for your review. Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely yours." Short, sweet, to the point, that's all you need. Thank you for listening. I'm Bruce Hurwitz, President and CEO of Hurwitz Strategic Staffing on the web at www.hsstaffing.com.

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