Ultimate Cover Letters: A Guide to Job Search Letters, Online Applications and Follow-up Strategies - Softcover

Yate, Martin John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749453281 ISBN 13: 9780749453282

Publisher: Kogan page, 2008

Synopsis

In the competitive world of job-hunting everything depends on first impressions, so it is important to know how to write a compelling letter. Ultimate Cover Letters, from bestselling author and careers expert Martin Yate, describes how to do just that, helping you to open doors to job interviews and offers of employment.

As well as sound advice on assembling letters and how to use key 'power phrases' to get results, the book provides sample letters to cover a variety of situations. These include e-mail responses to on-line applications, speculative letters, letters to answer advertised vacancies, follow up letters, networking letters and even acceptance and resignation letters. Martin Yate covers all these aspects of this crucial part of the job-hunting process in an engaging and approachable way, making Ultimate Cover Letters an accessible, essential read.

About this title

About the Author

Martin John Yate is an internationally best selling author. He has held major posts as a director of training and personnel for several international companies and is widely respected as the expert on all career matters. He is also the author of The Ultimate CV and The Ultimate Cover Letters, both published by Kogan Page.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan page
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749453281
• ISBN 13: 9780749453282
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304