Chapter 5
Letters of application for specialist sectors
For the majority of jobs, a one-page cover letter with accompanying CV is all that a prospective employer is likely to ask of you. However, there are exceptions to this. The aim of this chapter is to help prepare you to deal with those exceptions.
This chapter will focus on the so-called ‘letters of application’, looking in further detail at a few popular lines of work where such letters are increasingly the norm.
Letters of application
What exactly is a letter of application?
Aren’t the speculative and advert-response letters that we’ve already covered letters of application?
Most recruiters refer to a speculative or advert-response letter quite simply as a cover letter. If you’re ever ...
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