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IT Cover Letter

Technique #5

Want More Quality Job Interviews?
… ASK and you shall receive!

You’re about to discover one of the most effective job-search strategies ever revealed. Ready?

Your IT cover letter’s main focus and purpose should be landing YOU the job interview. The one way to fill your calendar with more quality job interviews is to clearly and directly ASK for the job interview within your IT cover letter!

Let’s face it, without landing the job interview, it’s pretty difficult to land the job.

You can positively get your ‘foot in the company door’ for more quality job interviews by using this one simple strategy.

Allow me to repeat:

CLEARLY AND DIRECTLY ASK FOR THE JOB INTERVIEW
IN EVERY JOB-SEARCH IT COVER LETTER YOU WRITE!

Asking for the job interview in the beginning of your cover letter and again towards the end of your letter is the perfect combination. (Twice as nice, twice as effective.) Keep it friendly and conversational but clear and direct. Remember you are asking the reader (HR Director, Hiring Manager) to take a specific action. You are asking him or her to pick up the telephone to call you for the job interview. Does it get any more basic than that?

When you stop and think for a moment doesn’t it become obvious?

I’m offering you quite possibly the most deceptively simple job-search advice you may ever read… and certainly one of the most powerful.

Here's an example of asking for the job interview within your cover letter:

I am excited about the possibility of a personal interview at your earliest convenience to further discuss my credentials with you. I can be reached at 555-555-5555 and will follow up with a phone call, as well, to make sure you've received my application.

This type of approach can be used as the final paragraph in your letter. It clearly tells the reader YOU really want that job interview!

Can this ‘asking’ strategy be used with your resume as well?

I hear this question all the time and here’s my answer:

A resume does not ‘communicate’ the way a cover letter does. For all intents and purposes a resume states a person’s name, rank and serial number as it relates to his or her career and education. Conversely, the cover letter’s main job is to ‘speak’ directly to the recipient making it the perfect and only job-hunt document in which to clearly and directly ASK for the job interview.

The bottom line: Use your IT cover letter as the marketing tool to bring home the ONE RESULT you most desire: The job interview! (And quietly enjoy the fact that 99% of your competition will never read this information).

Heck, you tell me, besides landing the job interview what ELSE do you expect your cover letter to accomplish?

My thoughts exactly.

So how exactly do you ASK for the job interview?…