Cover Letters for Dummies (ISBN - 0470402210)

314 Pages·2021·13.07 MB·English

Joyce Lain Kennedy
Nationally syndicated careers columnist and
author of Resumes For Dummies

Learn to:

• Stand out with cover letters that get you interviews
and follow-up letters that get you hired

• Create online profiles, candidate comparisons,
and accomplishment sheets

• Model the best letters with more than 125
samples written by top career professionals

Cover Letters

3rd Edition

Making Everything Easier!™

Open the book and find:

• The nuts and bolts of 21st-century
job search letter-writing

• Explanations of all types of
leading-edge documents and
materials

• 125+ new samples from
professional cover letter/resume
writers

• Attention-grabbing openers and
action closers

• The latest online networking
trends

• Tips for identifying your
marketable skills

• A handy glossary of problem
words

Joyce Lain Kennedy is a nationally syndicated careers columnist
appearing in newspapers and on Web sites across the country. The author
of seven career management books, she has more than 30 years of
experience in the career field.

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Now completely updated for online
and on-paper job search — the
only guide to new-style letters that
get you in the door

Go beyond the classic cover letter! Whether you’re a new
or experienced job hunter, this guide offers you fresh ideas
for crafting a wide variety of engaging cover letters and
innovative career marketing documents. You’ll see how to
stand out in today’s fierce job market with savvier, higher-
impact messages that cut through the competition.

• Realize the clout of your cover letter — discover the surprising
role your document plays in a successful job search

• Build your marketing arsenal — from e-mail cover notes and
resume combo letters, to online profiles and professional
branding statements

• Write your way to a job with great success lines — see how your
letter should look and read, include the right targeted content,
grab the reader’s attention (and hold it), and keep the door open
with a take-charge close

• Apply the latest letter tactics — get strategies for replying to ads,
prospecting, networking for job leads, and writing thank-you
letters that clinch the job

• Choose from more than 125 outstanding samples from top
career professionals — including a mix of new-style, traditional,
creative, friendly, hard-hitting, and clever letters

Cover Letters

Kennedy

3rd Edition

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by Joyce Lain Kennedy

Cover Letters

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About the Author

Joyce Lain Kennedy is America’s first nationally syndicated careers columnist.
Her two-times-weekly column, CAREERS NOW, appears in newspapers and on
Web sites across the land. In her four decades of advising readers — newbies,
prime-timers, and in-between — Joyce has received millions of letters inquiring
about career moves and job search and has answered countless numbers of
them in print.

Joyce is the author of seven career books, including Joyce Lain Kennedy’s
Career Book (McGraw-Hill), and Electronic Job Search Revolution, Electronic
Resume Revolution, and Hook Up, Get Hired! The Internet Job Search
Revolution (the last three published by Wiley Publishing, Inc). Cover Letters
For Dummies is one of a trio of job market books published under Wiley’s
wildly popular For Dummies branded imprint. The others are Resumes For
Dummies and Job Interviews For Dummies.

Writing from Carlsbad, California, a San Diego suburb, the country’s best
known careers columnist is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.
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