Salary temporary training applicant requires
Experience rates leave apply position
Cleaner
Local hotel_____ cleaner Monday – Friday, 9 am – 1 pm. Good ____ of pay. Tel:01345 876545
Accounts
Full-time _____ in busy car hire company. To start immediately. Computer skills essential . _____ accounting to age and experience.
Phone Bushy’s on 10267 435 985.
Sales Assistant
The successful _____ must be hard-working, responsible and honest. Previous _____ is an advantage but full _____ will be given. _____ to
Mr P. Dale, Tel: 012 74 768231.
Nurse
_____ position for three months to replace nurse on maternity _____.
Look through your local press. Analyze job advertisements.
UNIT 3
A COVER LETTER
1. Read the text:
The first piece of employment communication is the application letter. You will write the application letter to a potential employer and ask for some specific action in the hiring process. Your purpose in the application letter is not usually to ask for a job. Since the letter serves as only one step in the job search process, its purpose is to get you an interview. The letter accomplishes this task by introducing and referring your reader to your accompanying resume. By sending your letter and resume together, you hope to create interest in yourself as a potential employee. Then, the reader will want to talk further with you. The application letter should answer the question for the reader, “Why should I see you?”
An application letter serves as a sales letter for your services. When an application letter accompanies a resume that details the writer’s education and work experiences, it becomes a cover letter.
Your application letter helps develop the reader’s first impression about you as a potential employee. Your application letter must be neat, polite, purposeful, accurate, and technically correct. Make your letter brief, one typed page, consisting of four elements that contain the following information:
1. Design the first paragraph to gain attention and make your reader want to read further. Your first paragraph can accomplish this purpose in one of several ways:
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ü By briefly summarizing your qualifications
ü By mentioning the name of a mutual acquaintance, or where you saw the job ad
ü By referring to news about the company or current activity
ü By asking the reader a challenging question.
2. State the job you are after. The paragraph should state what job you are applying for. Mention the source you got an information about a vacancy.
3. Sell yourself. The paragraph should emphasize the skills that will be most attractive to that employer. Begin to convince the company to hire you. Your purpose in paragraph is to create interest in examining your background further. Here is where you discuss the benefits the company would derive from hiring you. Your goal is to convince the reader that you can satisfy the need that the company has for a new employee. Don’t go too far and outwardly boast about your skills and abilities. However, do present a businesslike and objective description of what you can do.
4. Be positive. Close your cover letter with a request for an interview. State that you will be calling within the week to arrange a time and date for your meeting, and then be sure to make that follow-up call.
Letters of application arise from two situations – either someone solicits the application or not. In either case, your purpose is to convince the reader to examine your resume.
If someone solicits your application, you are applying for a known job opening. The potential employer advertises the available position, you respond to a job announcement or recruitment bulletin, or someone personally notifies you about an available job.
In an unsolicited situation, you are initiating the search. You are seeking an interview where, as far as you know, no one has sought applicants. You are attempting to generate interest for a potential position, or you are working your way into a situation where you can respond when an opening does occur. In either case, the purpose of the letter is specifically definite. You want to create enough interest for the reader to review your resume and then to talk with you.
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2. Answer the following questions. Give your reasons :
ü Is it important to attract the reader’s attention?
ü Why is it important to attract the reader’s attention in the first paragraph of your cover letter?
ü What are the most common ways to attract the reader’s attention?
ü Which of them is the best one? Why?
3. Ask your group mate about the information you must present in your cover letter. Begin your questions with : Could you tell me…?, What can you tell me about…?, Why should I…?
4. Analyze the following cover letter. As you study the letter, note the four components of the cover letter:
ü Gaining attention by making a connection
ü Introducing the “product” by briefly outlining your background and situation
ü Giving evidence of value by emphasizing the benefits to the employer and referring to the attached resume
ü Asking for action by asking for an interview.
Charles Jacobs
188 East Taylor Drive
Mayfair, OH 44533
May 3, 200…
Mr. Hardly Samuels
Personnel Director
Merchants Department Store
222 Medium Road
Columbus, OH 44512
Dear Mr. Samuels:
Cover Letter
Please consider my application for administrative assistant that you advertised in the May 1 edition of the Columbus Herald. The requirements you describe match my qualifications.
I will be graduating from the business program at Pace County Community College at the end of the month. I’m planning to enroll part time at the Ohio State University in the fall to complete a bachelor’s degree in business administration. However, I would like to begin working full time to apply what I’ve learned at the college.
Please note on my enclosed resume the part-time and temporary positions I’ve held over the past three years. As a result, you could hire an administrative assistant with experience in office management and customer relations with strong word processing skills.
After you have read my credentials, I would like to meet you to discuss how I can contribute to Merchants’ operations in the Columbus area. I will call next week to see if we can arrange a convenient time. If you wish to reach me before then, please leave a message at (614) 235-6677.
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Sincerely,
Charles Jacobs
Enclosure : Resume
5. Study the following cover letter and answer the questions:
ü What does this letter respond to?
ü What kind of cover letter is it?
ü What are the main parts of the letter?
ü What information is presented in the letter?
ü What are the purposes of giving this information?
Dear Mr. Jones
Since Computer Systems is a fast-growing company, you are likely in need of young and energetic people with a good knowledge of computers. In one month I will be graduating from University with a Computer Science degree and would like to join your company as a programmer.
In addition to my university courses, I have had work experience in programming and operating computers. Last summer I implemented programs for the design of loudspeakers at Nortec Industries.
At your convenience, I would like to meet you to discuss how my qualifications could benefit Computer Systems.
I am looking forward to our meeting. Next week I will call you to try to arrange an interview.
Yours sincerely,
Susan Runnels
Enclosure : Resume
6. Study the following cover letter. Add everything that has been omitted :
David Benton
Worldwatch UK Ltd
357 Ferry Rd
Basingstoke RG2 5HP
Dear Mr. Benton
I saw you advertisement for the job in sales department. I am very interested in the job.
I graduated from a college.
I worked in a related field.
I enclose a copy of my resume.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Please let me know if you need more information.
Yours sincerely,
Nancy Mann
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