Cover Letters, Uncovered!

State your reasons for applying for the job. Draw in your relevant experiences, as well as your motivations and hopes, and explain why you think you’re the perfect person for the position.
If there’s any aspect of your CV that you need to clarify, or that you want to stress, state them in your cover letter.
Use formal language in your letter, and make sure it never runs over more than one side of A4 paper. After all, you’ll want to make a strong and positive impression within the HR manager’s notoriously-limited attention span, not bore the reader with long, rambling prose.
End on a positive note. Mention that you’re looking forward to hearing back from the employers, and that your references are available upon request.
If you’re having trouble getting started with your cover letter, you can derive inspiration from the cover letter templates you’ll find in most commercial word processing programmes.
HR Managers are too wise to judge a book by its cover, but they can tell if you’re right for the job by your cover letter!

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