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It’s widely accepted by recruitment professionals that increasingly higher competition among today’s job seekers is making it harder for many applicants to successfully obtain interviews for positions in the organizations they wish to join. In order to overcome this situation, the successful job seeker is learning more and more to use power words to help stand out from crowd in this increasingly competitive job market. Even a few years ago, you probably would not have heard of the term keywords in the context of cover letters for resumes. But, given the increased use of technology in screening the thousands of applicants applying for positions in Fortune 500 organizations, they have started to impact individuals and related industries in a big way. But keywords, those hot words that are associated with special industries or job positions, are an important way that a job seeker can differentiate him or herself from the competition of other job seekers. They are important beca...

No matter what size of business you work for or own, there will most likely come a time that you have to write a business letter of some type. Writing letters, whether they are for business or for personal needs, can be very stressful if you are not accustomed to writing them, but by using a system and the letter templates that come with it, you can craft the letters that will meet your business needs quickly and easily. The ideal system should include many different template options that will fit any possible situation for your business. These templates should be MS Word formatted to allow you to cut, copy, and paste the parts that you need for your own business letters to take some of the worry and stress out of the writing. The samples of business letter templates should encompass all of the different letters that you may want to write in your business dealings. What types of business letters are typically used in the corporate setting? Think thank you notes, sympathy letters, finan...

Maybe you’ve experienced this: poring over cover letter templates online or in books, trying to find the perfect one that will get you hired – but none seem to fit. If that sounds like your experience, here are some valuable hints. Should you use a template? It’s fine to use the templates that you find online and in books to base your cover letter on. Visually, they will probably work fine. But don’t just reword these samples. There’s one important reason that won’t work for you: these samples aren’t designed to get you called back for an interview. They are simply there to demonstrate a visual format. So you really need to write the content yourself. Content over format The real secret to “formatting” a cover letter is to focus on the content, not the format. That’s why it really helps if you are willing to do some research. You ought to go out of your way to find out what the needs are of the company you are applying to. The ...