BONUS: Your Generic Cover Letter as Experienced by a Hiring Manager, with Jenny Foss

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

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Careers, Business

4.8 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Your cover letter is one of the most important elements of your application--perhaps as important as your resume. This is where you outline your passion for the position and make the case for why you are the best candidate for the job. Unfortunately, too many job seekers undervalue and underthink their cover letter. Sometimes they fail to include a cover letter in their application. More often--but equally detrimental--they use the same generic, cookie-cutter cover letter for all their applications. This simply doesn’t cut it. On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Jenny Foss, founder of JobJenny.com, shares how your generic cover letter reads to a hiring manager. Her entertaining, “what-not-to-write” cover letter hits home with insights on how you can improve your own cover letter right away. When you read your cover letter from a hiring manager’s point of view it starts to read differently than when you are reading it for yourself. Jenny reminds us not to regurgitate the content of our resumes into our cover letters and to not waste the hiring manager’s time with worn out cliches like “detail-oriented” and “proven track record.” You can find more useful job search insight in Land Your Dream Job Anywhere, now available on Amazon. To preview the first chapter for free, visit www.macslist.org/anywhere. Opening and closing music for Find Your Dream Job provided by Freddy Trujillo, www.freddytrujillo.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.5	This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helped you get hired, have the career you want,
1:19.1	and make a difference in life. I'm Mack Pritchard, founder and publisher of Max List.
1:24.3	On today's bonus episode, we're sharing exclusive content from Land Your Dream Job
1:29.3	Anywhere. It's our new book that launched February 1, 2017. For 15 years at Max List, we've
1:36.6	helped people find meaningful, well-paying work in Portland, Oregon, one of the country's most
1:41.5	competitive job markets. Now we put all of our best job hunting advice in one new book that can help you no matter where you live.
1:50.5	Land Your Dream Job Anywhere also includes advice for many of the national career experts who have appeared on our podcast.
1:57.8	Here's Jenny Foss, owner of jobjennny.com, reading her contribution, your generic cover letter
2:04.7	as experienced by a hiring manager.
2:17.2	Hi, this is Jenny Foss.
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