{"id":1927,"date":"2022-06-25T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/clean-up-your-cover-letter\/"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T11:02:14","slug":"clean-up-your-cover-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/clean-up-your-cover-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Up Your Cover Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Your cover letter is often the very first thing that potential employers will see before they even open your CV. While you may want to fill it with all your achievements and a long and earnest plea to be given a chance to show how wonderful you are, potential employers don\u2019t have time to read paragraphs and paragraphs. Try these tips to grab attention from the get go:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Keep it short \u2013 two paragraphs is more than enough<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Spellcheck \u2013 use it<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Search for words like \u2018really\u2019 and \u2018very\u2019 and then remove them<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Make sure your contact information is correct<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your cover letter is often the very first thing that potential employers will see before they even open your CV. While you may want to fill it with all your achievements and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}