Covering Letters - the advice and the fear.

Don't make it too long, make a couple of points that demonstrate that you can do the job and that you want to do the job.

Put yourself in their shoes - how many people will be applying for the job? If you're recruiting, you want to read a cover letter that shows that the person is not a serial job applicant applying for every job going, that it's worth your while getting them in for a more in-depth discussion

Ok, so if the job is with dudes who rent modern art pieces to corporation, do I say "I

"As someone who has done blah for the past blah period of time, I believe I am uniquely qualified for the blah position. I have experience in blah, and am very comfortable doing blah, as per the job description which I have obviously read carefully.

"Please see my attached resume for more of my work experience, and thank you for your consideration.

"Name
Phone Number"

Ok, so if the job is with dudes who rent modern art pieces to corporation, do I say "I love art no really" in CV or covering letter or both, and do I say "especially Cornell and Gurksy and Bronzino" in CV or covering letter or both?

They're ignored if they're too long, or too short to say anything, I find them quite useful.

The covering letter is the means of tailoring your cv to the job you're applying for, though obviously you should write your cv with the job in mind too

Make sure that anything you say in your covering letter or cv can be backed up in interview. The covering letter is the place for things like 'I really enjoy...' the CV is facts on your past career history only. I really don't find a list of 'interests' at all useful when recruiting, unless it's to strike people from the shortlist for being odd/sad/mental

usually its just expenses for food, travel ect ect

I went to a talk earlier this week by some recruitment consultants where they said "don't tell ppl in a company what they already know in yr covering letter", eg don't tell them that you want to work for them because they are one of the market leaders in their field, or something like that.

Talking to the consultants informally after the talk, they seemed genuinely surprised that when I have applied for jobs higher up in the company, the recruiters were more interested in my experience of managing a budget than anything else. Their surprise, in turn, surprised me.