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Can you make any recommendations regarding my cover letter?

Dear Hiring Partner:

I recently relocated to the Spokane area and am looking for full time employment. I would like to get back into intellectual property and Timberline sounds like the perfect opportunity. You will see from my resume, copy enclosed, that I have ten years experience in IP. Also enclosed are two letters of recommendation, a memorandum of commendation, and a copy of my office skills test results for the Spokane Public Schools. Confidentiality is of the utmost concern to me and I always use a high level of discretion when dealing with highly sensitive information. I am respectful, courteous, friendly and a team player. I also take the initiative to meet work objectives.

Timberline would benefit from my proficiency with Word Perfect, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access. While at Volpe and Koenig, P.C. I instructed coworkers in the use of Word Perfect until we switched to Word. We also used Adobe Acrobat for PTO forms. I started at V&K as a floater secretary and I am very comfortable in that role. I have also worked with specific attorneys for long periods of time and am also comfortable in that role. I can work with Microsoft Excel and am willing to learn any new skills or software needed. While at the Piedmont Family YMCA I learned Access and Trinexum and proceeded to manage a database of over 5000 records. I am well versed in all office machines, including a Dictaphone.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my resume. I would like to bring my creativity and 15+ years of secretarial experience to the Timberline Patent Law Group PLLC. I welcome any opportunity to speak with you. Please feel free to contact me should you have any further questions.

Sincerely,

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Try to shorten your paragraphs. Make them short but sweet. Also, find out the name of the "Hiring Partner" and address him/her personally. If you are responding to a job advertisement, use some of the keywords that were used in the ad - this way you'd be a perfect fit for what they need.

    You will give this along with your resume, right? Make sure that the cover letter is not a mere repetition of what already is present in your resume. You will learn more by checking out the sources of my answers.

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  • 5 years ago

    i like your letter, yet as a hiring supervisor, my advice could be to shorten it to 3 paragraphs. Interviews are meant to get this counsel out of you. in case you will possibly desire to maintain this separate, and supply this on the actual interview, then that should be high-quality. yet for the preliminary conceal letter, you basically desire a short introduction to the rationalization you're utilising for this place, why you think of you would be a stable fit, and what you will do to stick to up with the guy you despatched the letter to. i'm hoping this enables.

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