2. How to make a cover letter ?
What is a cover letter ? What's the point ?
● Completes your CV
● Introduces you
● Explains why you are applying for the job
● What are your skills and competences
● Demonstrates your skills and abilities
● Motivation
3. How to make a cover letter ?
Preparation
1st : Make some researchs about the company, about the job,
about the environnement.
Who ?
Where ?
What the job ?
How ?
Etc...
4. How to make a cover letter ?
2nd : Take a paper : BRAINSTORMING
Write a list of all your qualities, skills, experiences, and knowledge.
● schools
● after-school activities
● profesionals experiences
● your planned future
● environement of your futur job
Bachelor degree Responsible Find new ideas
Piano Creativity Travel
Football Like moving
Teamwork Meeting new people
Serious Curiosity
Waitress Won the football Cup
Family
Animation with childrens
Taking decisions
Intership in a kindergarden
English
Work in a office
Open Office Spanish
5. How to make a cover letter ?
3rd : Because of your research, you can select and organize all
yours skills.
What is the best ?
What is usefull for this job ? For this
company ?
Etc...
Now it's time to find
how to connect all
Bachelor degree Responsible Find new ideas this ideas.
Piano Creativity Travel
Football Like moving
Teamwork Meeting new people
Serious Curiosity
Waitress Won the football Cup
Family
Animation with childrens
Taking decisions
Intership in a kindergarden
English
Work in a office
Open Office Spanish
6. How to make a cover letter ?
Your address telephone fax email
Writing
Your address
2 possibilities telephone
Don't put your name ! Date (e.g.: 28 February 2012)
th
fax
email
Destination
What is the structure ? name and
address
A4
Salutation (Dear...)
Just 1 page
Body
Maximum 4 paragraphes
Your signature
Your name
7. How to make a cover letter ?
First paragraph: Introduction
●Introduce yourself briefly (a new graduate or a seasoned professional,
where you come from, what school you attended, etc....)
Be quick, it's not your CV !
● Mention the position you are applying for.
● If it's not a spontaneous application, specify how you learned about
the opening.
● State your general qualifications for the job (situate your skills within
the context of what the recruiter is looking for; don't just mention your
skills).
It's the transition for the 2nd paragraph.
8. How to make a cover letter ?
Second paragraph:
● More details about your qualifications and back up your assertions.
●Choose your most relevant qualifications and discuss how your
background and experience qualify you for the job.
● Remember that you should not repeat what is already in your
resume. Use different sentence structures and try to be imaginative,
yet concise.
●Remember that you have to proove your skills so don't write too much
skills if your experience can't proove it.
9. How to make a cover letter ?
Third paragraph:
● Request an interview
● where and when you can be reached
● Thank the reader for his or her time and consideration.
●Show that your are motivated (you can tell them than you'll call in fews
weeks about an job interview)
●The typical ending of a cover letter is sincerely. In emails you can also
write:
- Regards
- Kind regards
- Best wishes
10. How to make a cover letter ?
The typicall mistakes
● 3 lines of letter
● 3 pages of letter
● Don't use to much « I ...I...I ... »
● Don't say « I would wish » but « I wish » no conditional
● Don't say « I'm the best », say « I'm able to make this because »
or « I'm good because.... »
To lie
To make a spelling
●
●
● Long sentences
● Copy and paste typicall senteces mistake !
● the date has to be update
●
Be active and positive (for exemple, don't say « I'm not available till the
31st of March » but say « I'm avalaible from 1st of April »)
● Don't say that the company is the best, try to find one element which
caracterise the company
11. How to make a cover letter ?
Now, you're ready for this step !
If you need help, have a look on the paper
with a list of words or sentences usefull for
a cover letter.
Thank you for your attention and good luck for
the future :)
