The Essential Guide to Cover Letters & CVs
In an increasingly competitive jobs market, it is essential to know how to make yourself stand out: not easy when the only materials you have are your CV and your cover letter. With Graduate Coach's essential guide, writing an eye-catching CV and a perfect cover letter is well within your reach. Following our tips will give you the edge that you need to get ahead.
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The average CV gets just 15 seconds to make an impression, so it's important that your CV gets noticed - for the right reasons. Rifling through a multitude of CVs, the person overseeing the initial stages of the recruitment process starts to become more ruthless than Alan Sugar: one whiff of a bad CV and it's on the 'reject' pile. this happens countless times in countless offices across the country every day.
This complete coaching manual breaks down each step of writing your CV and cover letter down into easy to complete parts.
What is included in the Graduate Coach Essential Guide to Cover Letters and CVs?
- Each part of the work experience process split into easily understood chunks.
- Easy to follow step-by-step instructions.
- Activities which will help you get work experience.
- Checklists and contact forms that you'll find easy to manage and complete.
For a limited time you can instantly download a digital edition of the Essential Guide to Cover Letters & CVs for free (rrp £9.99). Either individually or as part of the GraduateCoach Get A Job Pack.
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- Introduction
- Why are CVs and cover letters so essential?
- How to approach cover letters and CV writing
- What to expect from employers
- Stages of graduate recruitment
- CVs
- How to avoid typical CV pitfalls
- Different types of CV layouts
- What employers want to see in your CV
- Compiling a CV checklist
- Tailouring your CV
- When you've written it
- Cover Letters
- The importance of cover letters
- How do you structure cover letters?
- Examples of cover letters
- Buzzwords and phrases for CVs and cover letters
- The dos and don'ts of CVs and cover letters
The Graduate Coach Essential Guide to Cover Letters & CVs splits each part of the CV and cover letter writing process into easily managed chunks with easy to follow step-by-step instructions. It is filled with activities, checklists and contact forms that you'll find easy to manage. We've taken all the pain out of writing a CV and cover letter, so even if you've never written a CV before, with our guide you'll find it really easy.
For a limited time you can instantly download a digital edition of the Essential Guide to Cover Letters & CVs for free (rrp £9.99). Either individually or as part of the GraduateCoach Get A Job Pack.
Go to the download page
