A good cover letter sticks your foot in the door
A cover letter sits on top of your resume and creates the first impression an employer or recruiter will form of you. Its aim? To engage, inform, impress and get you an interview!
In one page, your cover letter must:
- Demonstrate what makes you perfect for the role by briefly matching your skills to the key competencies specified.
- Convey your professionalism, communication skills and attention to detail through competent, concise writing that is free of spelling errors.
- Use just the right level of language (formal/informal balance) and vocabulary that will create a favourable impression of competence with the reader.
- Display some knowledge of the company to show you have genuine interest in the role and have done some research for your application.
- Arouse the reader’s interest in leafing through your resume and putting your application on the ‘interview’ or ‘next stage’ pile.
The cover letter must balance its role as a marketing tool to ‘sell’ you to the prospective employer while also providing the key information that the recruiter or hiring manager wants to find immediately. So writing a cover letter can be a tricky balancing act.
Why hire Fine Art Resumes to write your cover letters?
Fine Art Resumes’ cover letter writers have more than 10 years’ experience in how to write cover letters that stand out. Our cover letters are:
- Developed to the specifics of the job application.
- Informed by extra research we do into the prospective position.
- Written with an insider’s knowledge, because our cover letter writers have worked as recruiters and hiring managers.
- Formatted to modern standards in easy-to-read styles.
- Customised to every client; no two cover letters we write are the same.
Let Fine Art Resumes match your powerfully written resume with a high-quality, customised cover letter that demonstrates your fit with the job.
See our cover letter and resume writing packages page to select the service most suited to your needs.
