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I would recommend using the font, Verdana, which was designed for readability on the web. Your don't want your emails format to distract the reader's attention from your perfect fit for the posting. This font is also a standard for many email programs and web sites.

Posted by Carol on April 4, 2008 11:18 AM

Attn.Spherion My name is christoper williams an I have had a contract with spherin 4 years now. the last location I previously worked for was in Marrow Ga. I worked when ever they had work. My line of work is light Industrial. I am a very resposible worker on time. take agressave attitude. to get task done. some time in many was im be ahead of other coworkers. an what I really me by that is that.is that employers do not have to ask me to do task. to much because. when their is nothing to do I makeup things to do. some employers rilly are more nogosable with emploeyes who most empressave. oppose to those who are not. Sicerly christopher williams

Posted by Christopher Williams on April 14, 2008 3:03 PM

I have just procured sample cover letters for fax and e-mail submission with accompanying resumes from my college career-services center. They are well-written and full of detail, but way too wordy for e-mail format and e-culture (i.e., no recipient will have the patience or take the time to read more than one moderately long, or two brief paragraphs). I agree that an e-mail accompanying an attached resume should have amicable salutations and closings, and concise, relevant details about the applicant's qualifications and reasons for desiring the job. It would be counterproductive to make the e-mail as long as one would a printed, snail-mailed letter. Eyes become very weary watching a computer screen. If the e-mails are not going to be printed out and read on paper (and who will take the time and trouble to do that, today, in the face of so many responses?), I suggest that correspondents take the painstaking effort to put as much info into as few words as possible. That calls for not merely a new format for e-mail cover letters, but an entirely new paradigm. We can begin to model after advertisements (but with proper grammar and spelling kept intact) and put the most "sell" into the fewest seconds' worth of eye focus.

An outline or template might be the best way to approach writing the e-mail cover letter; perhaps even a small self-quiz or questionnaire. Write down the three to five essential questions an interviewer would ask you about why you want that job, and what makes you suited for it. Put your answers directly beneath those questions, and you'll most likely have your cover e-mail as an end product. All you'd have to add is a congenial opening (very short) to the beginning, and then decide how you'll sign off. Will you follow up with the employers, or wait to hear from them, and should you mention your intent to follow up in your closing? The key is in keeping it all brief, interest-sustaining, and professional.

Posted by Penniellen on September 16, 2008 11:45 PM