Product Description

Cover letters are alive and sell! When they’re written right, that is. To stand out in today’s sea of qualified job seekers, learn to craft riveting new breeds of cover letters, create vibrant images online, and discover sensational self-marketing documents you never imagined. This completely revised and updated 3^rd Edition of Cover Letters For Dummies brings you all this — plus over 200 great new samples by 62 successful professional cover letter/resume writers.

You’ve probably suspected that passive and sleepy cover letters merely hugging resumes won’t get you where you want to go. Especially in a shaky job market. The verdict’s in. Since the last edition of Cover Letters For Dummies, blazing fast change in tools, technology, and how hiring managers come calling and how we invite them to look us over, means big dramatic changes in our job messages.

In this exceptional handbook of contemporary job messages, you’ll discover fresh ways of thinking about cover letters that captain an entire team of new-style job messages.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120715 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470402214
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Review
Glittering advice plus great classic and cyberspace cover letters-the best of the cover letter books. -- Rick Miller, CEO, CareerCast, Inc.

Her distinguished career...has placed her leaps and bounds ahead of the rest. -- Bob Calvert, Jr., Career Opportunities News

If all new college graduates had a Joyce Lain Kennedy to guide them...there would...be fewer unfocused, frazzled, jobless people. -- Dr. Drema K. Howard, Director, Career Resource Center, University of Southern Florida

If all new college graduates had a Joyce Lain Kennedy to guide them...there would certainly be fewer unfocused, frazzled, jobless people. -- Dr. Drema K. Howard, Director, Career Resource Center, University of Southern Florida

Joyce Lain Kennedy is at the top of her field. -- Richard L. Knowdell, CEO of Career Planning and Adult Development Network

From the Publisher
Discover how to:

Follow the new rules for e-mail cover letters Craft a letter that says you're a hot hire Showcase your best skills Grab attention with a great opening line Use action words that get results

From the Back Cover

Now completely updated for online and on-paper job search — the only guide to new-style letters that get you in the door

Go beyond the classic cover letter! Whether you're a new or experienced job hunter, this guide offers you fresh ideas for crafting a wide variety of engaging cover letters and innovative career marketing documents. You'll see how to stand out in today's fierce job market with savvier, higher-impact messages that cut through the competition.

• Realize the clout of your cover letter — discover the surprising role your document plays in a successful job search

• Build your marketing arsenal — from e-mail cover notes and resume combo letters, to online profiles and professional branding statements

• Write your way to a job with great success lines — see how your letter should look and read, include the right targeted content, grab the reader's attention (and hold it), and keep the door open with a take-charge close

• Apply the latest letter tactics — get strategies for replying to ads, prospecting, networking for job leads, and writing thank-you letters that clinch the job

• Choose from more than 125 outstanding samples from top career professionals — including a mix of new-style, traditional, creative, friendly, hard-hitting, and clever letters

Customer Reviews

too red-hot!
This book is chock full of cutesy icons and useless advice. The author spends far too much time touting her previous book (resumes for dummies) and dispensing annoying catch phrases as opposed to giving solid writing tips. We've recieved letters like those featured in the book and dumped them directly in the trash. Unless you are applying for a sales job at a used car lot, don't bother using the letters in this book.

We do not need an entire book on cover letters
While the companion volume, "Resumes for dummies" is excellent and well worth your time and money, this book does not justify itself. It could easily have been condensed into a few chapters and added to the resumes volume. "Resumes AND cover letters for dummies" would have made sense. I bought the resumes volume and am glad I did. I spent an entire weekend reading it and picking up excellent hints that dramtically improved my resume. I was able to peruse this book in 30 minutes at the bookstore, however. If you know how to write a simple business letter, you do not need this book. Definitely get the resumes volume, though.

A tremendous job hunting resource
This is not just a book on cover letters; it's a wealth of knowledge on the entire job-hunting process. Joyce Lain Kennedy has put together a tremendous resource for the current or soon to be job hunter, which is really most of us.

I know people scoff at Dummies books, especially for highly technical subjects, but this book is the perfect format for the vast collection of job-hunting facts, ideas and wisdom in this book. The author does an excellent job of presenting a lot of material in a way that is clear, entertaining and extremely readable.

I highly recommend this book, and liked it so much I went out and bought her other two books, Resumes' and Job Interviews for Dummies, which I will be reviewing as I finish them.