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Below
are sample cover letters for a person who retrained to
change careers and enter the field of accounting and
customer service. Which career move / career change
cover letter is the strongest and uses cover letter design
to grab attention in seconds? The before or after cover
letter sample?
As you can see the after career move and career change cover
letter uses underlining and bolded headings to focus on key career change
skills for accounting and customer service. To identify
the key skills Terry needed to market to change career
fields, he analyzed a fairly detailed job ad and underlined
all skills in the ads he possessed to create a far stronger
cover letter.
If you are want to write a cover letter to make a career change or career move, I recommend you do the same. Gather 5-10 job
ads for the range of positions you are interested in moving
into and use them to create your cover letter.
Underline all of the skills in the job ads you possess then
make a list of all of the skills you have that qualify you
to move into a new career field. Then group them
by related categories and category
headings to create cover letter paragraph headings that showcases your skills
and experience in your desired field.
If you have already created a powerful resume to make a
career move or career change, then you should have already
used $, # and % to quantify your achievements.
Continue to sell these quantified achievements in your cover
letters to not only change careers but to help you land more
interviews and higher pay.
If you review the content of the after career moves and
career change cover letter below, you will see how it uses
#'s to expand and elevate Terry's image. The
more you quantify and describe your experience using $, #
and % in your cover letters for career moves / career change
jobs the more likely you will be to land more interviews and
higher salary offers. You might also want to read my
section on transferable skills - although if you do a good
job of analyzing your job ads - you'll be able to identify a
large majority of transferable
skills you possess and that are essential when
making a career move or career change. For more ideas on how to create
a powerful career moves / career change cover letter you
might want to review my 12
questions.
This
information is extracted from my book, Proven
Resumes Strategies That Have Increased Salaries.
The cover letter strategies in my book have been responsible
for helping clients raise their pay $2,000 to $80,000 more
per year.
If you're having difficulty creating a resume and
cover letter - you
might consider hiring me to write your resume.
The fee is $150 or $250 ... or consider buying my largest
book, Proven
Resumes Strategies That Have Increased Salaries -
it's 331 pages for $9.95.
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