Customer Reviews

101 Best Cover Letters

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3 star:		(2)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

This book is aimed at the professional or technical person. This will not be helpful for the unskilled or blue collar worker. However, there are tips found in several sections of the book that are interesting and useful for everyone. As an unemployment consultant for those who are primarily not college educated nor professionals, I did not find this to be the best resource.

This book provides more strategic direction and advice on how to write leters than any others I've seen. These samplings don't just fill up the pages - you can really use them. The book includes letters for all different purposes and some grat street smart tips throughout.

This book was a great investment! The cover letters give you examples to use in your own letter and show you the strengths found in each cover. I actually took a highlighter to this book and highlighted my favorite lines and ideas out of certain letters. I then implemented them into my letter. Great for everyone, the professional or the inexperienced. YOU NEED THIS BOOK!

I found this book to be very helpful, most of its kind. There are over 20 chapters of different kinds of letters, and the samples given by the authors/contributors offer a lot of variety. These are very professional and action-oriented letters. I highly recommend it in differentiating oneself in a tough job market.

101 Best Cover Letters is a good buy if you are struggling with putting together just the right words for a great cover letter. Gives some "common sense" tips, but also a variety of styles (i.e. responding to classified ad, how to incorporate a reference, specific careers) for your letter. Obviously you still have to make your cover leter your own, but this book definitely helps get the wheels turning.

I was really pleased with this book. It has a over 20 chapters of different kinds of letters, offering tips and then including samples to use. I found it more creative and "real world" than others I had worked with in the past. Authors did a good job

This is the best book of its kind on the market. It's letters were varied and covered more topics than I needed, but will use in the future. Definitely worth the [money]!

Definitely helps you out when you are getting ready to write a new cover letter and especially when you're editing your cover letter. This book helped me to gain two well paying jobs (one in 2008, one in 2009). Best use of this book is when you are editing your cover letter and you can't think of how to write an effective sentence in your cover letter.

great cover letter book (5 stars)

not good in electronic format. the example cover letters are not scalable! this makes it nearly impossible to read.

Jay Block has done an excellent job of pulling together great examples of cover letters that cross various industries and careers. It is indexed, so finding examples in certain positions or industries are easy to find.