Radi a great cover letter is a lot easier than most candidates.
A good cover letter opens with an engaging sentence like you might see here and then it's followed by
a brief introduction to why you're writing which is mostly because you're applying for this role then
what you're going to do is just preview in the third segments what's to come in the next paragraph which
is the body paragraph the body paragraph is a place where you have one of two options.
You can use it to try to break down barriers that might exist in the recruiter's mind or to build additional
rapport with them.
You first need to see if you have any obvious barriers to do this easel has made a tool for you.
You can go down the checklist and just see if you have any of the obvious barriers.
If you do then what you need to do is you need to think OK I'm going to acknowledge this barrier in
this paragraph and then I'm going to show the recruiter how I'm going to overcome it so that I can successfully
contribute to the organization.
If you don't have any of these barriers then you're going to use this paragraph to describe your ex.
So these are things like professional characteristics that are not shown on your resume that are going
to help the reader get a sense of who you are and how you're going to successfully work on their team
or in an organization in the third paragraph.
You're just going to close the cover letter with a little summary.
Let's say that Alex for example is applying to a nonprofit organization.
So what he's going to do is he's first going to go down the barriers checklist to see if he has any
of these obvious barriers if he doesn't have any of these barriers then he's going to use the middle
paragraph as an opportunity to describe one of his X factors.
So first he writes an engaging sentence.
He modifies the first paragraph a little bit and then he goes into the body paragraph and he starts
talking about his X Factor.
So let's say that his X Factor is digital communication and social media management.
So he's going to talk about how he has these skills when he's displayed them and why he thinks they're
important for the organization and what it says about Alex as a candidate.
And then he's just going to close up the final paragraph and he has a great cover letter.
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