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The secret of getting that job is in the cover letter

You may have discussed it in one of your numerous school essays but have to wait until your first degree to experience it. Unemployment. How to curb it will be the key agenda in the coming manifestos. Whenever it is presented on a discussion table, the tables must break, and no remedy developed.

Some invest energies in entrepreneurship. Congratulations for choosing this ship, determined to turn the threatening waves into saves. Most of us, however, opt to follow their careers in established organizations, knocking door after door with little progress. Don't give up. Wake up. Knock again, keen to demonstrate the knowledge you acquired from previous knocks. The pain of being rejected gives you the key to unlock the locked door.

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