No-Nonsense Cover Letters: The Essential Guide to Creating Attention-Grabbing Cover Letters That Get Interviews and Job Offers

In today’s competitive job market, if your covering letter doesn’t grab the interviewer’s attention, he or she may never even glance at your CV. No-Nonsense Cover Letters gives you the powerful, practical tools to write attention-grabbing covering letters that complement your CV and get you more interviews and job offers. In this companion to No-Nonsense Resumes , authors and professional CV writers, Wendy Enelow and Arnold Boldt share their insights from 35+ years of combined experience to help you prepare covering letters that will get you noticed. No-Nonsense Cover Letters begins with a thorough but easy-to understand explanation of the key elements that are vital to creating attention-grabbing letters, including: why writing a covering letter is all about selling yourself; how to craft targeted covering letters; when to use bullets or paragraphs; and how to create e-Letters for today’s e-Search environment. Subsequent chapters offer tips on creating winning letters for opportunities in virtually every profession. Each chapter includes sample letters contributed by leading covering letter/CV writers and career consultants worldwide.