How to Write an Impressive Cover Letter
Feeling like your cover letter is getting you nowhere? Our step-by-step writing guide will help you create a unique, effective cover letter in just one week, making landing an interview for your dream job a breeze!
Featuring Amber Rosenberg, Career Coach
Format
This mobile-friendly course includes 14 short videos and 6 templates to make writing a great cover letter as easy as possible.
Duration
This course lasts 7 days, with one lesson per day delivered to your inbox.
Time
Each lesson takes 10-15 minutes to read.
What you will learn
- The 5 essential components of every strong cover letter
- How to create a sharp and professional headline
- Greetings that will keep recruiters reading
- Engaging hooks and why they're important
- Ways to bolster your experience with anecdotes and data
Why should you take this course?
- Learn easy ways to make your cover letter stand out from the crowd. Every job gets piles of applications. We give you the tools to get you past your competition and into that interview.
- Steer clear of the mistakes other people always make. Get access to exclusive sample letters showing you where others have gone wrong, and exactly what you should avoid if you want to get hired.
- Watch high-impact video tutorials from your very own career coach. Each lesson contains invaluable guidance from career coach Amber Rosenberg and comes with videos that walk you through every step of the writing process.
Course Overview
7 Lessons
The Five Elements of a Great Cover Letter
Learn the 5 key elements that any great cover letter needs, and get access to incredible example cover letters for inspiration.
Create a Sharp and Professional Headline
Discover what makes a strong cover letter header and get to work on building your own. Plus, gain access to sample heading documents built just for you.
Write Greetings that Keep Recruiters Reading
Hear the essential tips on writing like a professional and steer clear of the common mistakes people make when writing greetings.
Craft an Engaging Hook
Find out the importance of hooking your reader and exactly how to do so yourself, so you and your cover letter get noticed.
Write Persuasive Paragraphs
Get specific advice on how to write the best body paragraphs of your life, and check out our real-life example cover letters to see what (and what not) to do.
Nail the Conclusion
Bring your cover letter home with a sharp conclusion! Get essential feedback on what type of conclusions make the most impact and why.
Send Your Cover Letter with Confidence
Your cover letter is ready to go into the world and impress companies—now what? We’ll give you a plan of attack for moving forward and getting that dream job!
Meet the Expert
Amber Rosenberg, PCC
Pacific Life Coach
Amber Rosenberg is a Professional Life Coach, Career Coach, and Executive Coach based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As the owner of Pacific Life Coach, she has 20+ years of coaching experience and a background in corporations, tech companies, and nonprofits. Amber trained with the Coaches Training Institute and is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
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What are others saying?
Emily L.
I’ve never been really sure about what makes a good cover letter, but this course had super clear and helpful steps that broke down every part of the process! Definitely going to come back and reference it when I’m writing cover letters in the future.
Emily-Jane
I found your course to be very helpful. Changing careers was hard work within itself. Now I can submit resumes and cover pages.Your advice gets straight to the point.
Imaani
I have been with the same company for 32+ years, starting when I was 23 years old. I did not need a cover letter then, or maybe we did not even have them back then. Now, most jobs that I'm applying to require one in addition to a resume. So thank you!
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