Cover Letters For Teachers - Make it Count!

Why are cover letters so important? They provide the prospective employer with a brief review of your skills and abilities in the form of a letter. These types of letters are written much differently than resumes and can have a potent impact on your future employer.

The best news is that writing one it isn't that difficult. An excellent teacher is always going to be in demand. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job outlook for teachers through 2014 will grow somewhere between 9 and 17% per year.

"Experts predict that over the next ten years the nation will need 2.2 to 2.4 million teachers. That means there will be 150,000 to 250,000 openings for teachers in the nation's elementary and secondary schools. The needs are greatest in urban and rural communities and in curricular areas such as special education, mathematics, science, bilingual education, and English as a second language." This information comes from recruitingteachers.org, a non-profit organization based in Belmont, MS.

What does that mean? It means there will be continued growth in the field of education. If you are a good teacher, you should not encounter problems in finding a great job in a location that you desire.

What about that amazing teaching position at that awesome new school that you have your eye on, though? Do you think the competition for that position will be greater? Of course it will. The great paying jobs always demand the best and the brightest people. That is why your credentials and qualifications will have to be presented in the most incredible way if you are to get the job of your dreams.

One aspect of making a great impression on a prospective employer is to create a fantastic picture of who you are - with words. Let your cover letter show the school administrators just how remarkable you are.

The cover letter has one goal. That is to get the employer excited about the resume. It is a marketing tool, just like the resume is. Sell yourself in a compelling and exciting way.

What makes the best impression on employers? The wise use of accomplishments with anecdotes will win over a principal or school administrator much faster than simply stating what you did and where you worked.

Let your best qualities reach the employer through carefully written examples and stories. Don't just state what you are capable of, show what you have done in the past with vibrant language that attracts and invites the employer to want to know more.

You are a part of a significant sector of the labor market. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, and secondary school teachers, except special education, held about 3.8 million jobs in 2004. Of the teachers in those jobs, about 1.5 million are elementary school teachers, 1.1 million are secondary school teachers, 628,000 are middle school teachers, 431,000 are preschool teachers, and 171,000 are kindergarten teachers."

You have to be your very best to get the great jobs. What skills and abilities do you have that you can offer the employer - and - how can you do so in a way that makes the employer want to pick up the phone and call you for an interview?

Let your cover letter generate interest in your resume, then let your resume hold the employer's attention so that you are invited in for a face to face meeting.

The cover letter builds on the resume and leads the employer toward it. Make it glow. While it may not persuade an employer to grant you an interview by itself, it is a vital part of the whole package that sells an employer on YOU.

For more information about cover letters, please follow this link to: Cover Letter Guideline.

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Tips to Get Hired - How to Write the Best Cover Letter

The job market is very competitive today, so if you want to be hired, you must make your cover letter stand out from the herd. You don't have to use gimmicks, like a DVD presentation or a video cover letter. Standard cover-letters are still the norm, though they may be sent over email rather than regular mail. Therefore you need to know how to give your cover letter a makeover so that it will catch the attention of the person who is hiring and hold that person's attention. Follow these cover letter tips and you'll find yourself seriously competing for more jobs than you may have thought possible.

As cover letter tips go, the first may sound clichéd, but it only does so because it's absolutely true. You must grab your reader's attention with your first sentence. You'll get nowhere with vacant first sentences like "I am applying for the position of widget manager in your New York office." Instead, you should summarize the skills and experience you bring to the table: "As widget manager for Amalgamated Inc. I have a proven record of keeping projects on time and under budget, and I would bring this, and my five years of relevant experience to the position of widget manager in your New York branch." You must let the employer know what's in it for them.

Think of your cover-letter as an advertisement for yourself. Then think of the ads that are most effective. The most effective ads are the ones that tell you what benefit you will gain from a product or service. For example, if an ad says that a new hard drive has 500 GB of storage, it may sound impressive, but what's even more impressive is when it tells you how you can benefit from it: "You can store thousands of high quality images, documents, and videos without worrying about running out of disk space." Make your cover letter an ad for yourself and tell your potential employer what they'll be getting if they hire you.

One of the best ways to show your future employer what they'll gain from hiring you is to match up their job requirements with specific qualifications you have. Here is an example:

"Your job description requires someone who can perform scans with gamma cameras and scanners. I have spent three of the past five years performing scans in the nuclear medicine unit of Bayview Hospital under the direction of the department's lead technologist. You also require the skills necessary to care for patients of all ages. In my current position, I have experience caring for pediatric and geriatric patients, and ages in between."

If you can do this for each job you apply for, you will have access to far more jobs than if you are vague about your qualifications.

And although there's no way to avoid talking about yourself in a cover letter, you don't want it to be a long string of "I" statements. After 100 words or so of "I was captain of the company softball team, and I worked overtime every weekend for six months..." ad nauseum, your potential employer will probably become bored or find you remarkably self-centered.

Whenever you're able to include "you" statements in your cover letter, you're using one of the most powerful advertising techniques known. Lists of the words that get the most powerful responses in advertising almost always have "you" at the very top.

Think about songs, books, or poems you like best. Most of the time you like them because you feel like they're speaking directly to you in some way. If the reader of your cover letter feels like you are addressing him or her, you'll definitely stand out from the rest. "Your company will benefit from my six years of experience in using AutoCAD to design HVAC systems like the ones your company builds" is far more effective than "I have six years of experience using AutoCAD to design HVAC systems."

Finally, though it's included in every list of cover letter tips, it bears repeating: thoroughly check your cover letter for spelling and grammatical mistakes. Sometimes having a friend check it for you helps catch mistakes that you might miss.

If you apply these cover letter tips to your next cover letter, then you will find that more jobs than you ever thought possible become real prospects in your job hunt.

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