Step 5: Write a Short Cover Letter

Write a cover note to the employer, which will be followed by your Plain Text with Line Breaks resume in the body of the email message. It’s important to keep the note short. Here’s why: You can get the most impact from your email presentation if the employer doesn’t have to scroll his email message to see that it contains a resume. This can be achieved by keeping your cover note brief.

  1. Once you’ve composed your cover note, do the following:Convert it to Plain Text and adjust it according to Step 1 and Step 2 in this section.
  2. Set the margins so that no line exceeds 65 characters and spaces, and then save the document as Plain Text with Line Breaks (see Step 3 and Step 4).
  3. Copy your cover note and paste it at the top of your resume in the ResTextBreak.txt document, as shown in the following example by Joseph Lynch.

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