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.

If they tell you; I want to be frank with you, you can't be this (dream), smile. Own this dream they frankly told you to abandon, if it is your passion.

Confirm, attend those interviews; they enrich your worldview. Learn patience, employ it. Do the jobs you must do. Survive. Design your resume away from pressure. Network. Frequent career sites, study, research and Publish.

Meet more mentors and volunteer. Manage depressing relationships. Friends placed before you! Doesn't mean life is mean, or meaningless to you. Starved? Eat Achebe on the shelf. Stay aggressive, informed until you spot that specific opportunity, perhaps on the company website or other reliable sources. And our story begins here.

“Welcome Miswa. We really wanted to see this applicant who writes the cover letter like a poem,” confessed the hiring manager, smiling. I know her dimples spread when she reads this.

 When you identify an advert on your dream, you are not seeking the job, you are seeking a career. You are not performing a duty, you are fitting a role. Remember, many people, others overqualified because of their experienced experience, are applying for the same position. Your CV may not earn you the interview; the cover letter will. Craft a cover letter to impress a depressed hiring manager. His mind will not forget your therapy. She will long to meet you, just because of your cover letter.

Dear Sir/Madam. Inaccurate for our generation. Link in, view the profile of the HR. Address professionals by names. Call, ask the reception those details. Personalize the mail. Re: Application for the.....are great titles that hide passion. This is a career, a job  life may not give you again.

If the position is a reporter, display your reporting prowess, right from the title to the signing off. They run a charity? Acknowledge. They donated four cancer machines to KNH? Appreciate. Align your vision with the company's mission. Discover. Words are your swords. Choose and match skills relevantly. Accompany the passion, creatively and accurately. Use data to emphasize your strengths and achievements in past roles. Tell that story that makes you unique uniquely.

Everyone can stand, but only you must stand out. You are the gifted poet? Weave that gift here, in the cover letter. You said you know poet? You are, even your poetic dress reveals. You are; you own a story of hope. Forget the stanzas and the rhyme schemes; poetry is about you- the dreaming, willing, struggling, stubborn self in you.

Yes, the curious, enthusiastic you. Display it. Spray it. Expose it. Extract that passionate tune deep your heart. Play it. Replay. It doesn't beg attention- it attracts, retains attention.

Aspire, believe and compare, break those rules. No one drafted them for you. If somebody did, they didn't consider your worth. Even constitutions have been exposed to reviews, amendments and overhauls. Review, amend and adopt a passionate cover letter.

The old is a cliché enslaving our innovative mind. Set yourself as a creative candidate worth hiring. Appeal, before appearing. Focus on being focused as an autonomous, ready to risk applicant. Speak. Impact, in absence. Inspire presence. Convince. Somebody will notice it. Somebody is waiting to appreciate it. You must not fear to be different. Experiment into the different. It could inspire the difference, that critical difference.