Cover Letters For Dummies®, 3rd Edition

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Pub. Date: 2009-01-01
Publisher(s): For Dummies
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Summary

Cover letters are alive and sell! When they're written right, that is. To stand out in today's sea of qualified job seekers, learn to craft riveting new breeds of cover letters, create vibrant images online, and discover sensational self-marketing documents you never imagined. This completely revised and updated 3 rd Edition of Cover Letters For Dummies brings you all this plus over 200 great new samples by 62 successful professional cover letter/resume writers. You've probably suspected that passive and sleepy cover letters merely hugging resumes won't get you where you want to go. Especially in a shaky job market. The verdict's in. Since the last edition of Cover Letters For Dummies, blazing fast change in tools, technology, and how hiring managers come calling and how we invite them to look us over, means big dramatic changes in our job messages.In this exceptional handbook of contemporary job messages, you'll discover fresh ways of thinking about cover letters that captain an entire team of new-style job messages.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Cover Letters and So Much More!
News Flash: Cover Letters Are Grown Up and Have Kids
Creating Images Online for Now and Tomorrow
Special Marketing Messages Outrun Rivals
Creating Compelling Communications
Writing Your Way to a Job
Language That Snap-Crackle-Pops
Great Lines for Success
Job Seeker's Skills Finder
Job Letters: Sample the Best
Job Ad Reply Letters
Broadcast and Prospecting Letters
Networking Letters
Resume Letters
Thank-You and Follow-Up Letters
Online Messages: Sample the Best
Branding Statements and Online Profiles
E-Mail Cover Notes
The Part of Tens
Ten Urban Legends to Toss
Ten Tips for Top-Rated Online Profiles
Appendix: Directory of Job Letter Writers
Index
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