subject: Cover Letter For Resumes - Do People Really Get Hired By Emailing The Cover Letter [print this page] Emailing your cover letter for resumes has to be done in a way that doesnt get you lost in the email box. I talked to a few friends who were having a lot of problems getting interviews by just sending out resumes via email. I shared with them the ideas that had worked for me.
I told them that I always follow directions on the way to apply but I make every effort to visit the places I want to be especially considered for. I'll hand deliver my cover letter and resume to companies that are local, only after I send it via email if that's what they want. I did see an increase in interview appointments once I started doing this. My goal was to personally meet with the head of human resources or who ever would be interviewing. Adding a face to the page helped me go on more interviews.
I shared with them that I always send a custom cover letter for resumes, for every single company I apply for. There was a time when I got lazy and the temptation of using a generic cover letter from the internet beat me and I used it. My results were always the same, I had no results. For me the easiest way to accomplish this, especially when I was sending out fifteen or twenty letters in a week was to use a custom cover letter generator I've used and just tweak it for the company. I would go through the company's website and find useful information I could use on my cover letter to stand out.
One example of this is a company that I worked on a cover letter for resume whose website stated they had one of the highest reading ratios in the state. All do to their approach on teaching how to read. I put something like "I want to make a difference in children's lives by helping them achieve their goal of reading and what better place to do this than with a company that is using the most up to date and effective ways of teaching!" How well it worked I dont know but I got an interview.
Sending your cover letter for resumes I dont think was the problem. We discussed further what they had been doing and we concluded that it was the approach that was lacking. Like I told them, a generic cover letter never got me an interview.
