Cover Letters That Worked: "Long Hours And No Pay? Sign Me Up!"
This cover letter was not sent to us but it is such a good example of how to get your foot in the door that we had to include it.
We reported on this amazingly honest job listing from the Illinois Valley News earlier this month. Now, Poynter.org’s Joe Grimm notes: someone’s been hired!
The posting got 70 or 80 resumes, and it was ultimately 2010 U of Oregon graduate Darcy Wallace who got the gig. She told Grimm that the subject line of her letter was “Long hours and low pay? Sign me up.”
We love this: it’s ‘tudey, just like the original posting, but also says something about the jobseeker.
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