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Resume Cover Letters: Advice on Writing the Best Ones

by Michael Murray

The key ingredient to your responses to any job openings are your resume cover letters. These letters are like book covers. Fair or not, we naturally do judge a book by its cover. And an interesting cover is usually what grabs our attention and pulls us in to find out more.

As much as the adage tells us not to judge a book by its cover, we all do. So when your cover letter is being read, which it often is before the resume is even looked at, it needs to give the reader reasons to want to know more. The reader needs to know why they should open up the book or, in this case, continue on to the resume.

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