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hi everyone its Andy la subida founder a mile walk in the mile walk Academy and award-winning author of the hiring prophecies here with today's episode of tips for working life today we're going to talk about cover letters and when I say cover letters what I really mean is any means you're going to use to introduce yourself to the employer so that could be a cover letter if companies still require one it can be an email perhaps with your resume attached and it could be an applicant tracking system where they allow you to provide some notes about you yourself things that they should know about you so really it's whatever means you're going to use to introduce yourself now there's a couple of precursors that I want to mention right before we dive into the four sentences there's three things that your introduction should do and I believe you can do those in four sentences but I want to talk a little bit about just cover letters what the purpose was remember keep in mind cover letters are from a long time ago when we didn't have computers and we didn't have emails and we didn't have applicant tracking systems and you had to mail your resume to an employer about a job opportunity or a job opening that you saw or was advertised you needed to insert that cover letter to introduce yourself to let them know what it was you were applying for so they didn't really understand that now we have these systems that tag your resume and your names a particular jobs that you apply to it's much different now but regardless you still need to effectively introduce yourself so regardless of whether you're doing that in an attached document or whether you doing that in an email introduction or whether you're doing it through an applicant tracking system there's three things you ultimately need to do and you want to make sure that when you do them you're respecting the person's time the average person today let alone the average person who is recruiting for many positions gets about a hundred and fifty emails every day somebody who's hiring for a position might get twice that many or three times that many so you want to make sure that whatever you do you're being brief in your respecting their time trust me when I tell you that most people are moving at such a breakneck pace most of those recruiters just want to open that resume look to see if you are a good fit for that particular position or another position their company many of them are not going to take the time to read a lengthy intro or a lengthy cover letter so just keep that in mind okay one other one other little housekeeping item I talked a few weeks ago about how to build your ultimate professional resume if you haven't seen that episode yet check it out on my blog I've put the link down in the notes but there's some good tips and tricks and formatting items that I addressed in that particular lesson or episode that I think is going to be really helpful for you to understand as we talk about these four sentences that you need to that you need to do the first thing how to address that that intro dear whoever it is and I know there are many ways you can figure out who that is or dear sir/madam or to whom it may concern or whatever intro you are comfortable using I'm writing to inquire about the opening form so now you're telling them exactly why your inquiry it's just one sentence period that's it let them know why go to the next break make up make a new paragraph so that they now can get the meat and potatoes this is the what you offer why you're qualified and I would just say that I offer X years of experience in whatever your specialty is and which make me a strong candidate for this opening that that's your obviously your opinion but I think it's a nice way to collect that and give them some insight that you do believe you are a strong candidate they want to hear that then what I would do is I would just add one more sentence in that in that paragraph and just say the top portion of my attached resume highlights my career profile and three significant accomplishments that are also in alignment with this position now what you're doing is you're creating intrigue you're telling them exactly where they can find the information that they need in order to know whether or not you'd be a good candidate and it won't take them very long to see it and then I would make a break and then the last little sentence I would make is I'd welcome the opportunity to speak with you if you feel I'd be a strong candidate for this or any position in your organization it's extremely important that you at the any other position in your organization people need help with how to think these days everybody is moving so quickly it's not because they're not smart but you just want to make sure that they recognize that number one you're open to it and number two that they should be thinking that way you don't want them to just open your resume look at it and say yeah he or she's not a fit for the position that they applied for you want to remind them to make sure that they think about all positions in their company it may sound very obvious it may sound like common sense but when you're moving so quickly it's not always kind of practice okay so there it is I'm writing to inquire about what the position is I offer X years of experience I have strong these skills top portion of my resume highlights my career profile and my significant accomplishments which put me in alignment with the position I'd welcome the opportunity and so on now one other thing you might be thinking why not put those highlights in that detail in the cover letter the cover letters purpose it should be brief it should tell them why and why you're qualified but you want to create intrigue you ultimately want to get them to open your resume most of them are going to be inclined to do that anyway so you don't need to give them more in the email you don't you don't want them to see this much so I recommend reserving that for the resume for the resume perhaps you put one significant accomplishment but I think you can do this in four sentences five at the very most so that's it for today one other one other item I want to let you know if you like this type of information I've got a training course coming up with everything that's careers related so it's all this and much more depth everything from finding your purpose writing resumes cover letters interviewing all the way to career acceleration and all that good stuff so everything careers related and I'd also I love to hear from you so if you have any insight any questions about this drop down to the comment section let me know you're here ask me any questions share it I always welcome the shares and until next week we'll see ya