Covering Letter

General Tips for Covering Letters

Covering letters are also difficult things to write. General advice would be if responding to an advertisement:

Observe the custom for writing business letters, with your address on the top right and the recipient's address under this on the left.

Always address a person (you can phone the organisation to ask who to address your Covering Letter to).

If the job advert has minimum educational or experience requirements, mention that you have these requirements in your Covering Letter.

Never say that the company can benefit you, say how you can benefit the company, give an example of where you have benefited a company in the past. Keep the Covering Letter short, employers often do not have the time to read long Covering Letters, should be one Side of A4.

The Covering letter should have a polite, friendly, yet formal tone.