Creating a Compelling Cover Letter for Your Resume or CV

Everything you need to know to write your own killer cover letter for your next job application

Created by: Clark Waggoner
Creative Consultant, Editor, Language & IBE Specialist

What Will I Learn?

• Compose, update, and customize succinct, effective, and highly-persuasive 3-4 paragraph modern job application cover letters that showcase and highlight skills and career achievements.

Requirements

• All you need for this course is a word processor you feel comfortable editing and working with documents in and a PDF viewer to read some of the supplemental materials included with the course.

Target audience

• Anyone who is currently in the job market and has a basic understanding of what a resume/CV and job application cover letter do can for them will get the most out of this course. If you have no experience to the modern job market, some of this information may be too advanced, but the course still makes a good starting place. If you are highly skilled with modern cover letters and have no problem locking down job interviews, you probably don’t need this course at this time.