Guys,
Just a thought:
What if you had someone look at your documents before you send them away? Or help someone else with theirs?
In the spirit of landing a hand how about you copy and paste your cover letter and have other users critique it with the aim of making sure that you cover all the basics of career building.
So, here are the rules:
- delete any personal information from your cover letter and paste it in the comments field below.
- If you feel there is something needs improvement in someone’s cover letter PLEASE highlight it politely.
Over to you.
Dear Sir/madam
Good day
I am an ambitious and hard-working female who graduated from the University of Pretoria.
I have a Bcom law degree and my majors are in Mercantile and Private law as well as in Business and Marketing management. i am also currently registered for an LLB degree through Unisa.I am multilingual, proficient in at least four South African languages; English and Afrikaans included. I also have a code 8 driver’s license.
While at university I worked part-time while I was studying and juggled both work and school. I believe the skills and experience I acquired through these jobs would make me an invaluable asset to your organisation. They taught me to be entrepreneurial, target-driven, hard-working, a team-player and to think on my feet.
I am very driven and my ambition is to work in an organisation that will enhance those skills I already have as well as one where I can learn new ones. I enjoy learning and I am a fast learner. Modules I took also involved pastel, computer literacy and informatics. This is in addition to legal and general research modules. I have done administrative work and am competent with Microsoft word, outlook, pastel and excel.
I dealt with people from clients to suppliers and due to this i have great interpersonal and marketing skills. I have moot court experience and have had a great deal of practice in the sales and marketing field. I am a good communicator and am very good at dealing with people. I am also able to manage time better in project –based work due to jobs that required that i be time-conscious and target driven to achieve maximum success.
My dream is to really make an impact in the corporate and legal world, make a valuable contribution and be the best in my profession. I would really appreciate an opportunity to put my skills and experience to good use at an organisation where I could learn from the best in the business, one that could use those and also hone and enhance them.
I look forward to the possibility of a personal interview wherein we could further discuss my credentials.
Sincerely
I am a self-motivated 22-year old undergraduate from university Johannesburg, Bunting road studying Information Technology; I am interested in applying for the Job listed online.
I have had a great deal of experience at the University of Johannesburg performing one software development projects under the field of IT. The project was more software orientated and it had 3 parts in it, Back-end (Application forms), Database and the front- end (Websites), the entire project had to do with faults experienced in different campuses concerning the labs and allowed individuals to report back to the technicians from their posts.
This year I’m currently finishing off all the modules I have left which focus most on the business side of Information Technology, and most of all, they focus on how projects can be handle within the IT departments and which steps are supposed to be used for the project to be rendered a success.I am seeking to complement this indoor experience with this job opportunity in order to acquire the background necessary for a future career in IT.
I believe that I would be an asset to your program, hence my primary objective is to gain experience and explore with the latest technologies and the aim is to contribute to the company by developing software products that will enhance user’s productivity and meet the requirement requested by the client.
I will keep in contact whenever I am needed. I am looking forward to hear from you.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely
Hello good people, I’m having trouble trying to find a cover letter of an applicant who’s applying for apprenticeship or practicals in the electrical engineering field.
Please help!!!