The Main Error In Preparation Of Cover Letter To The Resume
In my work, it's simple. Projects done by people, I pick up these people. And I, as a rule, responsible for ensuring that these people in the company was comfortable and well. An important point: any view on HR and deeper into it - always the author. There is no common approach. There is no system - is the most and least effective and innovative ways of communicating, but it is always necessary to take into account the human factor adopted by the company and the rules of the game:
- You just do not like as a person, but never even know;
- You can be a young mother - and will always be worse 25 years unobligated boys;
- You 40+, although the refusal by age and illegal;
- You get to the homophobic, and themselves from the LGBT community;
- You call the unconscious negative associations - and there really is no chance;
- You red lacquer or ugly suit, or cause manners.
Alas and alas. But at the stage of dating correspondence while reading your resume - a chance to impress more or less objectively exists, and this chance must be skillfully use.
I - adept writing cover letters. It begins with this letter is your introduction to a recruiter. Hooked? Click - open your resume. Not hooked - openly, but it is read in two seconds. Yes, too lazy to write. Yes, "do not know" - you might say. Yes, it is much easier to make a choice for all positions. But the market candidates - competitive environment, will have to pull myself together and stiffen.
All that will be discussed below, is relevant both to the purely business structures, and to the creative industry. Of course, there are nuances. The oil company is different in principle from the selection of an advertising agency, and Western players with their 11th different interviews from a small Russian printing house, but it was at the stage of dating correspondence through the resume and cover letter are approximately the same rules.
A cover letter or Resume is unlikely to read your immediate supervisor, big boss or personnel director. His recruiter reads, likely with low qualifications, so it must be:
- Short;
- Understandable in style;
- Devoid of all common phrases and lyrics;
- Responsible for several critical issues.
1. Short:
There are different opinions on the topic of how much time is spent recruiter to read your resume, but in any case the time counted in minutes, experienced people are browsing the text on a diagonal very fast. In the cover letter is spent very little time in seconds.
Therefore, two or three paragraphs of text content is more than enough. No more than half a page, even if it is - the employer of your dreams.There are companies and people who can impress the offer "Take me to the job, you will not regret," but in this case your resume and portfolio should beat in the stomach immediately and call you for a meeting shall immediately after receiving the letter. Do not be overconfident. Make small text adequate.
2. Clarity:
Recruiter - usually the person at the initial stage of a career in HR. Not always, and it does not mean that the first meeting with him - an unnecessary and not worth your attention stage, but in most cases - people with not very highly qualified. Your letter should be clear and in form and content.
Avoid formalities. No appeal to the "you" no "hey, eychar, welcome!", Totally unnecessary - to talk about his life from the time of school and indulge in lyrical descriptions of your way of life in complex sentences. It is strongly repulsive form.
Cover letter - business correspondence, not flirting and talking heart to heart. Be clear, it is much easier.
3. Without water and lyrics:
Give specific examples. There is nothing worse than the phrase "I am confident that my experience and skills meet your requirements." When a recruiter reads a phrase in the two hundredth time, he will begin a nervous tic. With this tick your resume is doomed to failure.
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Or: "Hello! I am very interested in the vacancy, "Project Manager" in your company. I believe that my experience in previous company complies with the requirements, and I can benefit your company, working in the position. Please consider my resume as a competitor. "
You know yourself? Op - resume basket.
But the lyrics: ".. .Work lot and from an early age: in the 9th grade summer spent as secretary, then taught German and mathematics, worked as a tour guide, tutor, barristers and even a famous journalist in the publication ..."
Or, "Let's start with the good news: I am an energetic, if I start, then snoshu obstacles and do not even notice them, I am an eternal dreamer and creatives, while I was a child with children's spontaneity and openness to the world. I have no authority and blinkered view. I live by the principle "I still can." And yet I have a tattoo. " And another page of text.
Or: "But why do you need me? - You ask. This is for many reasons. I will name two key. First - this is a perfect match to your requirements. The second - in my experience, which is better to say in the figures so as not to ship you a sheet of text. " Further, generally, a sheet of text.
In these examples, unfortunately, zero content. But with excess - chaotic thoughts and judgments of mediocrity. Do not be funny, be necessary, call your professional envy, even if you do not come specifically for this job.
Let the recruiter your resume will close with regret that now their company does not work for you. Let him go home and tells how cool today in his hands was a summary, a great cover letter.
4. Three key answer to the question:
The cover letter should be fully (but short!) To answer three basic questions:
- What you can do;
- You can be useful to us in this position;
- Amount of money you are willing to work in this company (not explain why the figures or the plug is sufficient).
Nobody taught us in school to write an essay with a beginning and a logical end, and in the American school students possess this skill from an early age, but do not feel sorry for yourself, it is worth studying. So, after this essay a person on the other side of the screen should not remain to you any general questions. Who are you, how old are you, boy or girl you are, whether you are able to articulate their thoughts in writing how much you want to receive and why you are interested in this position on the merits.
Be prepared for the fact that nine out of ten recruiters will be unable to evaluate your efforts, nine out of ten you will not answer, or grin - it all worth it to you one of the ten heard. Even one of the twenty.
Fixation:
What is excluded:
- Biography - "born in an intellectual family, he studied at five, was looking for myself, I read such a book, cross stitching," "After high school, I by chance found himself in the creative university and joined the faculty of a certain skill";
- Bragging and pathos: "Now I have reached the point where I have to have a value of not only the interesting projects and solid financial perspectives, but also the reputation of the company";
- The tabloid vocabulary and lack of formal boundaries, "why do you need me? It's simple - I'm the best (smiley). "
Form for a list of companies dreams. Let there will be three of the best. Please, also, that they are ready to communicate in the future. Make it clear that you want to work there, maybe not now, but in a year. And suddenly there is a talent pool (and in fact it actually is)?
If you said a recruiter (even with failure), connect it to Linkedin - you now have live contact of the recently closed for you company. Bingo!
And do not be afraid. Search work - work, and free of charge. While you are looking for a job, especially when you do not, every day you some money. Treat it seriously missed opportunities. And remember, in correspondence, and in person - there is nothing more beautiful than an honest and open conversation. Nobody likes to feel like an idiot even, strangely enough, HR-manager. Exceptions, of course, is there, but, as a rule, in a very specific and complex companies where the approach to the selection of people quite different, and there is not rigged. This is destiny.
For example, once we read the following letter: "I congratulate you (name of company) so that you have recruited the best manager!" And yet. The letter was accompanied with a nice picture girlish face, but you never know beautiful girls. We called it more out of curiosity about such impudence. She was one of our best managers, and does, as far as I know, a great career in a very ambitious and exciting projects.
Courage, honesty and less silly conventions clerk mediocre. Speak with HR-ohm, he is also a man.
And the cherry on the cake: the photos are very easy our lives. The main condition: without the sea and expensive cars in the background, swimwear, vases with flowers, causing postures pouting lips and passport options. And less creative - type profile, smileys, absurd and funny accessories. Live open look, high quality portrait, photo of sufficient size to see your face - big and bold plus the first step forward.
