Cover letter

Muhammad Saiful Ambia Bin Mohd Nasir

NuHazuan Bin Muda
Nur Alimah Bt Mohd Azeli

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INTRODUCTION
This part must include : The position you are applying for
How did you find out about the vacancy
whether from mouth,newspaper and internet
Person : name,title&affliation
Ads : name & date
Internet : websites&date

BODY
States 3 items

Your education
Background
work experience
personal
characteristic

CONCLUSION

Refer your enclosed item

Resume and certificate
(any certicate
that indicate your
achievement)
Make sure to mention the contact
number & refer to setting up and
interview

RULES OF COVER LETTER WRITTING

1.Find out to whom

you are writing
Put ourselves in the hiring managers shoes
Do not write
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Do the research about the hiring managers
full name and get it right.

2. WRITE THE TARGETED COVER LETTER

Match to the format correctly
Do not use vague,jargon and clichs sentences.Make sure those 4
paragraph included:1.Contain self introduction.Write about who you are, where your expertise
can lies and why you apply this job.
2.Respond directly to the job description written by the hiring manager.
3.Do the research about the current status of the company and tell how
we can fit the needs in the company
4.Lastly,the call to action paragraph. Inform them that we would love to
get interviewed.
Thanks and appreciate them for spending their time reading the cover

3.No spelling
and grammar
errors
Any errors can spoil the first
impression.Spelling mistakes can
make an awful first impression
The hiring manager may think
that if you are careless on your
job application,you will be
careless in your job.

4. No
BOMBAST
You always feel awesome when
write bombastic filler because it
is easy to do but hiring manager
will roll their eyes and skip over
you if you write this kind of
sentences
I am the number one choice
I am the best candidate
Or
Dear sir/madame, I am a strong
candidate who would like to work in
your company
But it is allowed if it is true and you

5. Make your cover letter

Applicant Tracking System
(ATS) optimized

What is ATS?
ATS are mostly designed to read
through resume and cover letter as well
,sifting through keywords and keyphrases to statistically determine
whether to let you through the next
stage.70% of jobs are filled via an
applicant tracking system.

sample Cover letter

of different kind of
jobs

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Sample of bad and

good cover letter