Letter to a Fresh Graduate

Dear fresh graduate,

Today’s job market is more competitive than ever, so it is important to produce an outstanding cover letter. Your letter / email must accompany your professional CV and ultimately get your application noticed.

Your cover letter is your only chance to initially impress potential employers with your experience, skills and achievements. It should entice the reader to want to read your CV and find out more about you.

Just last week, I was recruiting for a role and after going through several CVs, I couldn’t find the ideal candidate for the role due to reasons like;

1. Not adhering to simple instruction
2. Funny email address ( sexygirl@yahoo.com)
3. No cover letter
4. Some applicants wrote My CV as subject of the mail even when the application subject was clearly stated
5. Lot of grammatical errors
6. Sending CV as docs ( when the recruiter is viewing your CV, it’s always scattered and not neatly arranged).. You can never go wrong when your CV is in PDF format

Please don’t let this be you, always pay attention to every little detail.

Great week everyone