{"id":10469,"date":"2013-03-15T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=10469"},"modified":"2013-05-27T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:18:36","slug":"so-you-need-to-write-a-cover-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=10469","title":{"rendered":"So you need to write a cover letter\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Lauren Arnsman, Head Editor, INALJ Puerto Rico<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

So you need to write a cover letter\u2026<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"laurena1\"<\/a>One of the most frustrating aspects of job hunting, for me, is writing the cover letter. When I first started job hunting about six months before my graduation date, cover letters were no big thang. Cut to over 100 job apps later and I was ready to inflict bodily harm on the inventor of the cover letter (ok, so I\u2019m sure there is no ONE guy, but still, ugh). So many sites had conflicting information (\u201cit should only be one page,\u201d \u201cit should be a million pages!\u201d) that it became overwhelming for me.<\/p>\n

It was especially frustrating because I could find sites that catered toward business cover letters, engineering cover letters, marketing cover letters, and so on. There didn\u2019t seem to be a place I could find tailored to librarians. Enter opencoverletters.com<\/a>. This site was EXCLUSIVELY for those in the library and information profession. I happened upon it when it was just a baby website but it\u2019s grown up a lot in the last few years. The best thing about it is how organized it is (though, what would you expect from LIS people?), with metadata galore. I\u2019m pretty certain you could find an example of a cover letter for any kind of library out there. They have ones for business librarians, youth services librarians, archivists, government librarians, and many more. The best thing about this site is all of the cover letters have been personally submitted by the creators and those people have all gotten the job. So it\u2019s pretty safe to say there are a lot of good ideas. Of course, you should never plagiarize the letters (this should go without saying but better safe than sorry), just use them as guidelines. This site is especially if you\u2019re uncertain of how to format a letter correctly.<\/p>\n

I highly recommend<\/strong> opencoverletters.com<\/a> for all of you job-seekers out there. It has helped me immensely.<\/p>\n

(Please note: this author is in no way affiliated with the website, she just really, really likes it!)<\/p>\n

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by Lauren Arnsman, Head Editor, INALJ Puerto Rico So you need to write a cover letter\u2026 One of the most frustrating aspects of job hunting, for me, is writing the cover letter. When I first started job hunting about six months before my graduation date, cover letters were no big thang. Cut to over 100…<\/p>\n

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