Cover Letter Myths You Shouldn't Believe

By siliconindia  |   Thursday, 26 July 2012, 00:54 IST   |    1 Comments
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Bangalore: Are you looking for a job? If yes, then you should know about how to prepare a cover letter. If you think it is not at all necessary, cover letter is important and an influential tool to land you a job. 50 percent of recruiters’ demands for a cover letter and among those, two-thirds are tending to reject a candidate just because substandard cover letter, a recent study by Zip Recruiter found. Reports J.T. O'Donnell of aol.com. According to O'Donnell, most of the advices put up on writing cover letters are outdated.



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The real purpose of cover letter is to cover everything which you cannot express in your resumes. It is a powerful tool to make a good impression of yourself to your hiring manager; the first impression tool which conveys how effectively you can communicate.



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