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A Cover Letter is NOT Optional!

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Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection A Cover Letter is NOT Optional! On June 14, 2010, In Resume Writing by Debra Wheatman , By CareersDoneWrite.com 0 What’s the value of writing a cover letter?

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How to Deal with Employment Gaps in Your Resume

Eat Your Career

People had employment gaps around that 2008-2009 time period. The other thing you can do is specifically address the gap in your cover letter. You can certainly do that in the cover letter. And I think that this has been changing since about 2008, which was when we had the great recession.

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Set Yourself Apart from the Competition » Make or Break Moments

Make or Break Moments

Each had a resume, test scores of the tests they’d volunteered to take to show their abilities and each provided a cover letter and their hourly rate. The cover letters were of varying degrees – some addressed me as Sir/Madam or To Whom It May Concern while some called me by name.

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Beware of Career Marketing Firms

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He was asking me to evaluate a proposal he had received from a career marketing firm. He wanted my opinion because I’m a career coach–and because I myself had once been victimized by a similar firm.

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Melba Duncan on the Hot Skills EAs Need For 2009 and Beyond

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Duncan in job interviews, and have even quoted her in resume' cover letters. I've since reread that article at least a hundred times, and have referred colleagues to the article too many times to count. I've attempted to "channel" Ms. I've scoured the Internet, Amazon, and bookstores for publications by Ms.

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5 Ways to Manage Your Online Reputation

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, August 10, 2009 5 Ways to Manage Your Online Reputation Are you your own worst enemy? cdn August 10, 2009 10:27 AM Anita said. August 10, 2009 10:44 AM Christian DE NEEF said.

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Is a Career Change Possible in this Economy?

Eat Your Career

I looked at a typical month during the high of the recession, which was April of 2009, and 4 million people found jobs that month and there were 3 million vacancies that didn’t even get filled that month. And, the corollary to that is that, in the worst of times, there are always millions of people that find jobs.