Professional Formatting Is A Must For A Successful Cover Letter

Professional formatting is essential for a successful cover letter. Poor structure and format can really detract from the impact of your content. There are a number of ways you can format your letter to make it both professional, appealing and user friendly. Standard business letter formatting is the basic structure for a professional cover letter.

The format should follow these fundamental structures.

1. Your return address including street, city, state, zip and date
2. The potential employers address. This should include the contacts name and title, company name and address.
3. Your salutation will come next and will address a specific person whom you know will be reading your cover letter.
4. The body content of the letter.
5. The signature block.
6. Enclosure reference.
7. Spacing should be aligned for single spacing with a single line break between paragraphs.
8. Margins should be standard with equal top and side margins and a slightly larger bottom margin.

The body copy is the one area in which you can employ some formatting techniques that will help grab the attention of the audience. A cover letter is a marketing piece and you are trying to sell yourself. You need your selling points to be easily identifiable and quickly accessed. In a cover letter the use of bullet points, underlining or highlighting can be helpful in this regard. This will also break up your copy and give it an easy to read appearance.

You want to make the copy as appealing as possible so you need to be as brief and succinct as you can. Potential employers don't have time for a mountain of information they want to be able to access your candidacy as quickly and as painlessly as possible. On the page your content should appear brief and the main points should be easy to access. Professional formatting is a must for a successful cover letter so stick to the basics.

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