Name: 正しいカバーレターで面接を受けましょう。 (Get the Job Interview with the RIGHT Cover Letter | Getting a Job in the US)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:06:35.000Z
Duration: 14 min 9 s
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A bad cover letter could prevent you from getting the job even if you've got a strong resume.

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In this video, we sit down with three experts to figure out how to make your cover letter work for you.

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We're going to make sure you pass into the interview process.

If you're one of my non-native students looking for an English lesson, at the end of the video,

we'll go over some idioms and phrasal verbs that were used in the interviews.

Steve is a local small business owner who's done a lot of hiring for his company.

He knows what he's looking for and I thought it was interesting what he said a cover letter does.

In your opinion what can a cover letter do  that a resume can't?

A cover letter, I think it helps start a conversation and can be more personal.

The resume feels often to me like a series of your history, of your work history,

and the cover letter feels like, if done right, can be a good way to start a conversation,

let people know what you've done, what you've accomplished.

I've never heard, heard it that way, as starting a conversation but I like the idea of that.

It starts a conversation it can be more personal if done right. How do you do it right?

Here, I sit down with Cindy, who in her career as an executive director,

has interviewed and hired literally hundreds of people.

I think it's safe to say she's read  thousands of cover letters.

What does she have to say about a standout cover letter?

A cover letter that stands out to me is one that has been personalized for the job and for the role.

And so it's one that generally early on in the cover letter, expresses why somebody wants that job,

it's the one thing that you can't put in your resume.

It's a compelling question and it does feel like it's a question that leads to conversation.

If you've spent any amount of time around a small child, you know this question gets asked a lot.

It's how a child begins to understand his world.

This employer is trying to understand you.

They have hundreds of people who want this job.

Before writing your cover letter, sit down and ask yourself why you want the job.

Write down every idea that comes to mind.

It's just a brainstorming session so don't judge your own answers, just write down everything.

You never know what one idea will lead to.

When you're done with your brainstorms, look at your lists.

Pull the clearest, most compelling, most unique, and truest points,

and write these into the beginning of your cover letter.

Remember, a potential employer might not read your whole cover letter. Hook them at the beginning.

I sat down with a career advisor, who stressed that what you really want to focus on

is answering the question why an employer would want you. She has specific advice on how to do this.

She talks here about students who are  just starting their careers,

but this definitely applies to any cover letter for any job,

and also relating that to your resume that you've worked so hard on.

Laura, do you have any advice on how to help students put together the best cover letter and resume possible,

especially if they're just starting out with their career and don't have much experience?

You need to think about what the employer wants and then you have to make a case for yourself.

interpret your resume the way you want to interpret it, or to

read a cover letter the way that you want them to read it.

You have to connect the dots for them and make a case for why you're the best candidate for the position.

That means that you're doing a lot of targeting for that particular position.

And when I say targeting, I mean you are changing your resume to use certain keywords that

You are shifting things around in your resume so that the most important things are at the top.

You're shifting things around so that anything that is relevant rises to the top half of your resume

because employers typically spend around thirty seconds on a resume.

There's just no time at all, so there has to be something that catches their eye and rules them in further.

And then in a cover letter, even more so, you're connecting the dots.

So you're taking the experiences that you have that are most relevant from your resume

and you're highlighting them in a cover letter,

and you're explaining why that experience prepares you for this particular position.

I think one of the biggest challenges students face is that they try to explain why they want the job

and focus more on that than why they're  qualified for the job.

Employers may care, most employers do care why you want it,

but not nearly as much as what you can  do for me as an employer.

So focusing more on what I have to offer and showing them what that is rather than just telling them.

So don't tell me as an employer "I have good communication skills".

I can read that through your bullets in your resume.

Tell me what you did that proves that you have good community skills.

So I think making that case for yourself by showing examples and not just telling me is very important.

I love the point that you don't want to  leave it up to interpretation.

You want your cover letter to be crystal  clear with examples.

Think about the number one thing you want this person to know about you.

Don't just list qualities, list examples that  support those qualities.

And what do you do if English isn't your first language?

What stands out on the bad side is something that says "to whom this concerns", or some generic start,

and then something that has clearly not been personalized for this role in any way whatsoever like,

or worse, it actually has a different job written in it.

>> That hasn't been changed yet. >> Oh, gosh. Okay, like a copy and paste error.

The other thing you're looking for in a cover letter and the resume is, can somebody write

in a way that is compelling, that has no  errors, that is clean.

Like you are looking at the writing, but that's not going to get you a job, it is going to

potentially not get you an interview, right?

But the content is important as to like why do you want this job, what's compelling to you about this?

What if the content was great and the grammar wasn't perfect?

It depends a little bit on the job and how unperfect it is.

So if it's really poor grammar consistently through,

I think it's unlikely that somebody's going to get an interview.