How to Write a Cover Letter
Consider a few basic, macroscopic rules that will take your word and phrase from drab to fab:
- Show, Don’t Tell: Use concrete examples and anecdotes to illustrate your points. I worked with X to design Y and Z which led to an uplift in $AM and B%” says a lot more than "I am a great designer.”
- Use Active Verbs : Active verbs make your writing flow dy
Tom White • Why Less Is More When Pitching Yourself
A letter is a particularly delightful form of personal writing, but it is also a form of writing that has been cannibalized, chloroformed, and KO’d by new methods of communication.
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
much the same. You are looking for catchy phrases, interesting ideas, compelling metaphors, and ways of talking about the benefits you provide that really capture just how great it would be to say yes to you. These are your “trailer moments,
Stephanie Palmer • Good in a Room
all the pieces of paper that circulate through your office every day are forms of writing. Take them seriously. Countless careers rise or fall on the ability or the inability of employees to state a set of facts, summarize a meeting or present an idea coherently.