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Catalonia Occupation Service

Advices for its effectiveness

We give you some advices to improve your effectiveness.

  • Your cover letter must be "personal and untransferable".
  • Write it again for each job offer answering an ad or by self-candidacy.
  • Specify the education, the experience and the abilities related to the needs of the company.
  • You can also write what you are able to do, but you have never done (for example: "I can coordinate a work team").
  • It must be concrete, structured and positive .
  • Only one sheet, white or bone-white, the same size like the cv and with quality paper.
  • The text must be written in first person singular.
  • The cover letter is more personal than the cv.
  • Use a good printer.
  • Address the letter to an specific person, if it’s possible.
  • The letter must be signed, (unless you send it by email).
  • Avoid standard models If everybody can use your cover letter, it’s not a good sign.
  • Don’t use the same letter for two different offers. The letter must be adapted to each company..
  • The cover letter never can be stapled together with the curriculum.
  • Avoid orthographical or grammatical mistakes.
  • Don’t right all words in capital letters or in too small letters.
  • Avoid being too cordial, colloquial and even formal in the greetings.
  • Don’t right nothing under the final greeting, only the signature and the name.

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