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COVER LETTER STRATEGIES HAVE INCREASED SALARIES by $2,000 To $40,000 MORE and landed up to 14 TIMES MORE INTERVIEWS!

Proven effective by hundreds of Employment Security & Workforce Offices. 40,000 copies sold, used by 2 million+ job seekers Create a cover letter that matches the job and salary you want. Rank in the TOP 5% & BEAT 95% of your competition! Compare cover letters that didn't work to ones generating high salaries and more interviews! My systematic and proven method teaches you how to: Analyze job ads to identify critical skills & keywords to create POWERFUL PARAGRAPH HEADINGS. Describe your BEST ACHIEVEMENTS to PROVE YOU'RE QUALIFIED! Use cover letter design that directs ATTENTION to your TOP SALES POINTS in seconds! Use easy, step-by-step cover letter worksheets with instant access by download. My Cover Letter Booklet is a jam-packed 26 pages for only $8.95 (not in stores) ... or purchase the entire Proven Resume series (350 pages) and get the cover letter booklet and a career-specific booklet FREE $27.80 Order & save $44.70 Benefit from my experience as a MASTER RESUME & COVER LETTER WRITER (15,000 resumes written). AUTHOR OF 12 RESUME BOOKS. (Read Endorsements... Book Contents ). HIRE ME TO WRITE YOUR COVER LETTER or RESUME! $27.80 Book is included!

Now to the Sample Cover Letter below ... but with caution ... if you are scouring the Internet for sample cover letters to copy ... don't FACE THE REAL RISK of LOSING INTERVIEWS OR JOB OFFERS because BY MERELY COPYING OTHER PEOPLE'S COVER LETTERS YOU DON'T LEARN HOW TO:

1) Correctly identify what employers need in the jobs you want
2) Correctly identify how your skills match those needs
3) Demonstrate how your skills solve those needs
4) Use critical keywords to quantify & describe your best achievements
5) Use POWERFUL paragraph headings to sell top qualifications
6) Direct the reader's eye, 1-2-3, to what's most important in seconds!

Does the Cover Letter below successfully follow these 6 steps for an Elementary Reading Teacher? Even if you're not a teacher, the concepts you'll learn here can help you create a Cover Letter that beats 95% of your competition! Take a moment and read the paragraphs below ... does this letter direct your eye, do anything to make key skills stand out? Does it present Sheila as if she is a highly skilled Elementary Reading Teacher? Now SCROLL DOWN to Sheila's AFTER COVER LETTER. Actually read the paragraphs so you can see how big of a difference TARGETED COVER LETTER CONTENT and POWERFUL KEYWORD PARAGRAPH HEADINGS make in a Cover Letter. My Cover Letter Booklet provides easy worksheets and examples to write letters for all career fields. The samples below are from my newest book: Proven Cover Letters for Teachers (write r.pontow@provenresumes.com if you are interested in this booklet $8.95).

BEFORE COVER LETTER

Mr. Daniel Calgary, School Principal
Maple Valley Elementary
1212 1st Avenue
Seattle, WA 98111

Dear Mr. Smith,

I would like to apply for a reading teaching position Grades 3-4 and found your advertisement on the Internet which indicates you will have openings this fall. Please consider me for these and any other elementary reading teacher positions that may be available.

I have just completed student teaching in fourth grade this week and next month will graduate from Northeastern University with certification elementary education (1-6) and as a Reading Specialist (1-6). I am committed to continuing my education and will begin a Master's in Reading degree next fall.

I am a dedicated teacher, enjoy hard work and helping students be successful. I believe this can be accomplished through the use of hands-on/minds-on activities, cooperative learning, an integrated curriculum, and, when possible, technology and the internet.

I look forward to an interview and can be reached at the phone or email address listed on my attached resume. Thank you for your time and consideration!

Sincerely,

Sheila Smith

AFTER COVER LETTER

Sheila Smith
READING TEACHER GRADES 3-4

Mr. Daniel Calgary, School Principal
Maple Valley Elementary
1212 1st Avenue
Seattle, WA 98111

Dear Mr. Smith,

Enclosed please find my resume for the Reading Teacher Grades 3-4 that you recently advertised: Briefly I have outlined my top qualifications below:

Reading Teacher Grades 3-4
As a Reading Teacher for Grade 4, I have taught reading, writing, and study skills curriculum to a class of 35, 4th grade students. Students in this program were selected due to either remedial reading or advanced reading skills ranging from 2nd to 8th grade level.

Reading Assessment & Mentoring to Drive Student Achievement
Managing this classroom and driving student achievement required weekly assessment of each student's current reading level. This position required weekly or bi-monthly consultation with both students and parents to provide effective in-home reading instruction. My teacher supervisor, has documented my ability to successfully raise student reading levels by 2 grades in many of the students I instructed. Please see the attached letter of recommendation from her about my abilities.

Teaching Diverse Reading Programs & Technologies
Teaching students with reading levels ranging from 2nd to 8th grade, I have taught a diverse range of reading programs including Success for All, DISTAR, ECRI, Open Court, CORI and LiPS Lindamond Phomenic Sequencing. Reading technologies included use of Accelerated Reader, Academy of Reading and Tomorrow's Promise Reading.

B.A. Degree with Elementary Teaching & Reading Specialist Certifications
My education includes a Bachelor of Arts with Elementary Teaching Certification and Reading Specialist Certification. Additionally, I will begin the Masters of Reading Program through Zenix University this fall.

The combination of my Grades 3-4 Reading Teacher experience combined with proven ability to assess student skill levels and use diverse reading programs to instruct reading levels from 2nd to 8th grades makes me well qualified for this position. Please feel free to contact me at the phone or email address on my resume. Thank you for your time and consideration. I am very excited about the opportunity to interview for this position.

Sincerely,

Sheila Smith

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POWERFUL COVER LETTER WRITING!
You should now be convinced of how important using my booklet, Cover Letters That Increase Salaries, is to job search success. To write my cover letter book I gathered over 50 cover letters off of the Internet and at least 75% of them look like the before letter before with no design to direct or control the eye path with no paragraph headings that stood out. 95% of them DIDN'T DESCRIBE KEY SKILLS THAT MATCHED THE JOB BEING APPLIED FOR!!! As you can see a successfully written cover letter does. By learning how to analyze the job ads you want to apply for, selecting and combining skills from your ads I teach you how to create POWERFUL PARAGRAPH HEADINGS, using my sample sentences, and VERY EASY TO USE COVER LETTER WORKSHEETS! you can create cover letters as powerful as the AFTER cover letter above! If you're interested in my books or resume/cover letter writing service ... scroll back up and read the information about my book and experience above.

MASTER RESUME & COVER LETTER WRITER!!
In addition to writing 15,000 resumes and 12 resume books, I'm considered a MASTER RESUME TRAINER and am currently launching a Northwest Association for Certified Resume Writers ... I've already certified 4 professional resume writers in the use of my ProvenResumes systems. I've also been a: Personnel Agency Owner where I interviewed, hired and placed hundreds of employees. Job Placement Specialist with the University of Washington, Bothell where I provided instruction for B.A. and Nursing Degree Programs. Career Development Instructor for a Technical College. I've also worked with the Deans & Placement Directors of ITT and Renton Technical College to write career specific booklets for adults retraining in Accounting, CAD/Drafting, Computer Information and Customer Service.

I've also written College Student and High School Student Resume & Cover Letter Booklets used by hundreds of schools and colleges! Whew ... that's enough for now! I'm sure you can find all the buying information above if you are interested in my books or my resume writing service. I really do care very much about what I do, and that's why I caution you to be careful in haphazardly copying other people's resumes and cover letters ... when you do that you're just grabbing things that sound good but not building a comprehensive or targeted cover letter or resume that sells YOUR UNIQUE SKILLS ... AND TO COMPETE IN TODAY'S JOB MARKET THIS IS A MUST ... also, I know it's hard to believe but all the testimonials in this site are true and signed by real people! Best of Luck in your cover letter, resume and job search travels! Regina

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