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Radi a great cover letter is a lot easier than most candidates.



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A good cover letter opens with an engaging sentence like you might see here and then it's followed by



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a brief introduction to why you're writing which is mostly because you're applying for this role then



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what you're going to do is just preview in the third segments what's to come in the next paragraph which



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is the body paragraph the body paragraph is a place where you have one of two options.



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You can use it to try to break down barriers that might exist in the recruiter's mind or to build additional



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rapport with them.



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You first need to see if you have any obvious barriers to do this easel has made a tool for you.



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You can go down the checklist and just see if you have any of the obvious barriers.



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If you do then what you need to do is you need to think OK I'm going to acknowledge this barrier in



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this paragraph and then I'm going to show the recruiter how I'm going to overcome it so that I can successfully



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contribute to the organization.



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If you don't have any of these barriers then you're going to use this paragraph to describe your ex.



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So these are things like professional characteristics that are not shown on your resume that are going



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to help the reader get a sense of who you are and how you're going to successfully work on their team



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or in an organization in the third paragraph.



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You're just going to close the cover letter with a little summary.



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Let's say that Alex for example is applying to a nonprofit organization.



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So what he's going to do is he's first going to go down the barriers checklist to see if he has any



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of these obvious barriers if he doesn't have any of these barriers then he's going to use the middle



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paragraph as an opportunity to describe one of his X factors.



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So first he writes an engaging sentence.



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He modifies the first paragraph a little bit and then he goes into the body paragraph and he starts



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talking about his X Factor.



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So let's say that his X Factor is digital communication and social media management.



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So he's going to talk about how he has these skills when he's displayed them and why he thinks they're



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important for the organization and what it says about Alex as a candidate.



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And then he's just going to close up the final paragraph and he has a great cover letter.



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