What is a Covering or Cover Letter?

Employment is probably the most brainwashed term heard in daily socialization; this is one of the reasons why job-hunting strategy is the must for those entering today’s employment rivalry.

Besides curriculum vitae (CV) or résumé which I name: the career tool described in listing format, “Covering letter or cover letter” is the most important career tool to promote the qualification, job-required personality and other distinguished eligibilities of any prospective employee. This article will only tell you what the covering letter is, but not the format of wiring it.

In any job-hunting strategy, though the employer just asks for CV or résumé, cover letter is a must to be attached to that CV or résumé. Résumé is the most important career tool for displaying the prospective employee’s capacity. I say cover letter is the most important, because it is the tool to present the prospective employee’s practical capacity.

In CV or résumé, the applicant’s qualification, experience and other relevant or even irrelevant capacities and other achievements are briefly listed downed from the most recent to the latest; on the contrary, in the cover letter, the applicant’s qualification, experience, other capacities and achievements are displayed in a “descriptive format”. Descriptive format means that the applicant’s strong points in both academic and real-life situations is be explicitly described.

It is through the cover letter that the applicant is opportune to display practical qualification (to what extent that one’s academic achievements would benefit the employer, how relevant between the former or recent job and the applying job, to which level other extracurricular experience would bring benefit to the prospective employer, and other personalities required to be a “genuine employee”, etc).

Indeed, you may not be qualified enough for the prospective job; however, through this cover letter that you are obliged to steer the irrelevant capacity or experience to be “relevant”. I believe it is really hard to make inadequate qualification and capacity to be adequate, or steering the irrelevant to be relevant capacity or experience, but I believe “confidence” is the prime incentive to do all.

What is a Covering or Cover Letter?