Writing Cover Letters for Resumes - List your unique qualifications

Writing Cover Letters Tip 7

List your key achievements

Use your last sentence in your second paragraph to show what you achieved. If this is a sales job, it's how you increased sales. If it's for an auditing job, it's what you saved the company. If it's a public relations position, it's the result of the publicity campaign you organized. By putting this information at the end of the paragraph, it's the one piece of information the reader will remember. Once the employer has been through 30 applications, you want him or her to remember you, in this example, as the person who improved sales by 30 per cent.

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John Noakes
1221 Stave Avenue
Washington DC 22090

Sales Executive advertised in
Computer Monthly

Dear Mr Johns

Joining Datacom’s Sales Team

I would like to join Datacom Office Equipment as your new Sales Executive and bring to your organization my 12 years of experience working on international corporate clients for Bestdata.

My training at Bestdata helped me become Regional Sales Representative of the Month four times in two years. After my promotion to North-East Regional Sales Manager, we improved training for sales representatives, revamped our marketing strategy and moved into direct selling on the Internet. Sales increased by 30 per cent in the next year.

Many of these ideas apply to Datacom's product range, especially the innovative portable telephones and fax machines you recently launched in the trade press.

I'd be happy to discuss these ideas at an interview. Could we arrange an interview in early June when I am in New York?

Yours sincerely

John Noakes

Enclosed: Resume

Writing Cover Letters

Writing Cover Letters Tip 7

List your key achievements

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