All posts tagged Cover Letter

How to Find a Job

How do you find work?

This is a question I’ve been asked time and again at job fairs and from HireGround followers. So I am going to endeavour to provide you with all the tips and intuition that I can from my personal experiences and from what I’ve gathered since working at HireGround and reading the postings on HGCareers.com. I hope you enjoy these tips and that they are help to you.

6 Sample Cover Letters

6 Sample cover letters for different introductions
To continue with our cover letter theme for this month here are some sample cover letters to help the job seekers out there!
Each one has a different approach and for different situations I hope these help.
Feel free to use these when entering the HireGround Job Seekers Contest!

Cover Letter Contest Entry

Cover Letter Contest Submissions will be accepted until September 23 2011 Votes will be counted on September 30 2011 We are looking for your best original and eye-catching cover letter! It can be serious, funny, confident, full of details, to the point or whatever you think will get you noticed by employers. We will upload [...]

Example of a Bad Cover Letter

To warm everyone up on the Cover Letter Contest I though I would give you an example of a bad cover letter. So that you know what not to do when applying for a job.

How to Clinch a Killer Resume Cover Letter

Experts say keep resume cover letters short, sweet and memorable. By Kristina Cowan Do you enjoy writing resume cover letters about as much as you relish root canals? Dread isn’t uncommon when it comes to resume cover letters. “It’s an area where job-seekers could do the most to improve, because it does require a certain amount [...]

5 Common Cover Letter Mistakes

To ensure you’re always using a cover letter properly, let’s review its intended purpose. A cover letter primarily connects your resume to an open position. To understand the importance of such a connection, you only need to put yourself in the position of a hiring manager for a day. Hiring managers, recruiters, HR personnel and others within the hiring realm, see several dozen — or potentially a hundred or thousand — resumes per day. How receptive would you be at matching resumes up with the positions open within your company?