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This is from someone who hires people, and used to help fellow students do Cover Letters and Resumes at Michigan State (while I worked for Career Development and Placement Services).
1) The Purpose of the Resume is to show the IMPACT you had in your prior work, while touching base on areas of experience, environments, roles, skills, tools, etc.
2) The Purpose of the Cover Letter is to make the INTRODUCTION. It should identify YOU, how you heard about THEM (or the opportunity), which specific opportunity (if they want 3 positions, and you are applying to a specific position, for example). Finally, it should LINK the two with examples that can be found on your resume. Thereby encouraging the reader to read the resume looking for this information.
Think of the Cover Letter as an ELEVATOR PITCH. If you were on the elevator, with the Hiring Manager, or the person looking. And you had your resume/CV with you. As you handed them the resume, what would you say??? (If you do those 2 things right, your interview ratio should rocket up)
Example:
Dear XXX,
I am responding to the ad in the Feb 18th Sun Sentinel for an embedded software developer
with Z80 experience.
I have 20 years of experience in embedded systems, and 5 years specifically with Z80,
and I believe it is my XXX experience at ZZZ corp that will interest you the most.
Our team created automated solutions for building and burning the CMOS and EEPROM chips,
which greatly reduced our test/run development cycles. We also utilized simulators to
save on hardware costs, in a project I spear headed.
Finally, you will notice that I have some team lead experience I believe you will find valuable.
Sincerely,
...
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Again, think about it in terms of the Elevator Pitch. What would you say quickly, to get the guy/gal to read your resume and give you a call back.
It is quite fair to use "I" in your cover letter, but NEVER in your resume.
I believe a Resume is NAKED without a Cover Letter.
The Cover Letter is like what the author writes on the back of the book, to draw the reader in!
HTH
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Simple enough:
Dear Sir/Madam/Pub Owner:
I am the candidate you dream about after a few too many pints. I work well under pressure, until I am pushed too hard and I, shall we say, "explode", but that only happened once at my last employer - and you finding that point is half the fun of employing me.
I am a loyal and reliable employee, as long as there are copious amounts of high-caffeine beverages and snacks available, for free, delivered to my desk on demand, and demand I will.
You will call me and you will hire me, you have no need to look further, in fact, do not continue to look further, unless you enjoy watching your back when you leave work, or home...
Forever yours,
-Name-
-Email-
-Phone #-
There, that should do it for you, let us know how it turns out!
Sincerely,
-Mark
mamiller@rhsnet.org
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Give it a try, will add a clue after a while if no one gets it 
Clue 0 : Oh, did that hurt you?
modified 6-Oct-15 7:49am.
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Calendar...
(No it is not the answer, but a clue to you to check your calendar)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 6-Oct-15 6:32am.
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Brittle1618 wrote: "Calendar" has 7 chars
Oh, does it? 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Counting with Top Gear Math, I assume!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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7 different 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Oh you nailed it 
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Agent__007 wrote: Oh, does it?
Yeah it used to have 7 characters, when it was young
Aah, the stress "will anyone come up with right answer, or my post will stand alone with no replies as it stood alone last week" has driven me nuts 
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I had a lot of guesses, but don't want to spoil the fun of driving you nuts
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I had a lot of guesses
Oh that's a relief.
Now I'll less go nuts and will more concentrate on Calendar and counting number of characters 
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: don't want to spoil the fun of driving you nuts
Have fun
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I have 297 matches for that pattern and about 5-6 "close" matches (looking at the graphics), but sadly, since I can't set one tomorrow, I am not even trying.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Agent__007 wrote: I have 297 matches for that pattern and about 5-6 "close" matches (looking at the graphics)
That's immensely cool 
Agent__007 wrote: I can't set one tomorrow
Okay, hope someone who can set one tomorrow answers it. Its an clue, one can get easily right?
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Nope, but 1W for you
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Cooper ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Nope.
1W for ya
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Cooler ? ( at least I'm trying )
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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1W
pkfox wrote: at least I'm trying
That's pretty cool actually 
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Nope, but you get 1W
A bit closer in a sense I guess
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He gets one (1) Watt?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Wote of course?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Are you hunting wabbits?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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