Resume And Cover Letter: Equally Important When Applying For A Job

Many people who apply for a job, spends most of their time in making their resume perfect and error free. However, when it comes to the cover letter, they just copy from the web, attach their resume and send it to the organization for consideration. They fail to realize that resume and cover letter are both equally important to an HR manager. Even before the Hr opens your resume and reads your qualification, they look at your cover letter. A cover letter speaks much more about you than a resume. The cover letter tells a lot about your personality to your HR manager. if the cover letter is excellent, it shows that you have spend time in creating that cover letter so you much be hard working and very interested in the job. However, if the cover letter is just of two lines and contains sentences like “Please find my resume attached with the mail. Kindly consider me for this job’, then it shows that you are lazy and could not even take out time for the company you want to work in.

One must understand that out of resume and cover letter, a cover letter is far more important than the resume. In a resume, you can just mention what are your qualifications, experiences and achievements. However, a cover letter lets you be creative in your approach. It allows you to persuade and convince the employer as to why you are the best for the job. If you are able to sell yourself to the employer in the cover letter, they might not even open your resume and call you for the interview. Such is the power of devoting your time to write a good quality and expert cover letter.

Another important thing that should be kept in mind is that you should format both the resume and cover letter in a similar manner. There should be consistency in the fonts and the size of the fonts that you use. It shows your professionalism and also how particular you are about even small things. You need to use professional paper for both resume and cover letter while sending them out. You should never send photocopies of resume and cover letter to the employer. If you can follow these simple tips while sending out your resume and cover letter, be sure to be flooded with phone calls for interviews.