Writing Cover Letters - Help?!

absolutelynomoney · 25 June 2009 at 10:19AM

Hi, I wondered if anyone would be able to help me with what to write in a cover letter for a new admin job?

I have applied for (and got!) lots of jobs before, but it was always online or through temping agencies, so I never had to write cover letters.

This position is a basic admin job for a big company - data entry from home. I don't really know what to put in a letter to them apart from "I desperately need the job and would be really very good at it because I have done this type of job before and am actually over-qualified!"

fengirl_2 · 25 June 2009 at 10:27AM

I'm sure you are joking but whatever you do, don't appear desperate and dn't make it all about you - what can you give to the company you are aplying to?
I am not sure whether employers look at cover letters - the application form or CV should give all the information required.
I would just say 'I am enclosing my application for the above post and look forward to hearing frm you.'

absolutelynomoney · 25 June 2009 at 10:53AM

fengirl wrote: »

I'm sure you are joking but whatever you do, don't appear desperate and dn't make it all about you - what can you give to the company you are aplying to?
I am not sure whether employers look at cover letters - the application form or CV should give all the information required.
I would just say 'I am enclosing my application for the above post and look forward to hearing frm you.'

I was joking about what I'd put in the letter!!

Wasn't joking about needing some help with what to write though!

Horace · 25 June 2009 at 10:57AM

This is one that I used to write:

Dear Sirs

I am writing further to your advertisement in x dated x and have pleasure in enclosing my CV herewith. (add a bit here as to why you are applying - do not under any circumstances use the word desperate - you need to sound keen and positive).

I would be grateful if you could consider my application and look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours faithfully

Write the letter For the Attention of x and the company addresss that way you can address it Dear Sirs.

I used to get interviews and jobs using this type of letter (no need now as I work for myself).

Good Luck

absolutelynomoney · 25 June 2009 at 11:26AM

Thank you very very much! Of course I wasn't going to put "desperate"!! If only we could just write - 'please please please I really need this job and I'd be so good at it!!' hee hee

Thanks though - I just needed an idea of what was necessary to write; I didn't realise it could be so brief. I adapted your email and the application and CV have gone off.

Ahhh!

LittleVoice · 25 June 2009 at 7:46PM

Though your CV or a completed application form should provide all the information the recruiter needs to decide whether to interview you -

a paragraph about how you meet the fundamental requirements of the person spec can be valuable as a summary - to get them to read on and know what what you are pointing out to them as their evidence to add you to the short list.

di3004 · 25 June 2009 at 7:54PM

I wish you luck.;)

Louise22 · 25 June 2009 at 8:49PM

If there is a person spec attached, make sure you list examples of how you meet it, thats always worked for me. I hate writing cover letters though, I find them quite hard.

Best of luck!

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