7 Steps to Writing Effective Cover Letters
A cover letter can be the ultimate compliment to your resume.

Types of Cover Letters
Throughout the years, cover letter writers have used different terminology for the types of cover letters.

Cover Letters – An Important Introduction
Writing a good query or cover letter will demonstrate to an editor or publisher just how serious you are about your work and getting it published.

Optimizing Your Cold-Contact Cover Letter
You’re contacting them to introduce yourself with the hope that it may spark an interest and result in a warm lead (also known as an interview).

Beat The Crowd With Winning Cover Letters
In a sense, a well written cover letter works like an agent on your behalf.

Optimizing Your Follow-Up  Letter
A follow-up letter seems like a last-ditch effort on the part of a jobseeker, am I right? Ah, but wait! The act of sending this kind of letter can actually sway a company in your direction.

When Cover Letters Get Personal
Cover letters do not need to be so dull, nor so uninteresting. This style of cover letter writing has been around for years; and it’s a trend that has overstayed its welcome.

Optimizing Your Job-Specific Letter
A job-specific cover letter is one of the most promising to send because the company is hiring! You know this because the company told you so; possibly, through an online job board, help wanted ad, or a posting at the local unemployment office. You know that the company is aggressively seeking someone with your skill set — and that shows great promise.

Tips to Creating Your Own Cover Letter Template
Using a cover letter template when job hunting is a logical and time saving measure. Your time is limited, so writing one basic one and using it as your template will simplify the application process, making you more efficient and hopefully employed all that much faster.

Junk Cover Letters Kill Good Resumes
Too many unprofessional, unfocused, and canned cover letters are floating around the job-seeking population.  So are you surprised when I tell you that a fair number of hiring managers don’t bother reading them?

Query and Cover Letters: A Quick How-To

Five 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.

How Beneficial is a Sample Cover Letter?
The purpose of a successful cover letter is to make the employer want to know more about you, to feel the need to meet you in person and discuss the job opening, to get you an interview!

Purpose of a Cover Letter
A cover letter serves as a “middleman” or connector between the resume and a job, along with being an introducer, an answerer of questions, and a speaker for your candidacy.

7 Deadly Cover Letter Writing Signs
Don't start off your job search with one (or more) strikes against you by committing any of these common cover letter blunders. Each is easy to avoid, but they can sink your chances of an interview if you include them in your letter.