Administrative Resume Cover Letter - I Offer Support Not Milk and Sugar
ÂIt would have been ok if this happened, once. The problem was that it happened several times. I took a closer look at my resume and it showed all the right information. I had been part of a team before. Worked with people in an office setting, and handled day to day administrative tasks.
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I took a closer look at my administrative resume cover letter and I think I found the problem was in the presentation of the resume. I dug deeper and realized that the generic information I was putting on my cover letter was lowering the value of my skills and not giving the reader any reason to expect more from me. This had to change.
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I looked for better information and reworked by administrative resume cover letter to look like administrative material. I gave examples of my skills and took initiative in learning as much about the company as I could. That had worked for me before but it takes time to learn about a company when you don"t have a friend on the inside.
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After the changes to my letter I finally got an opportunity for another interview and the job description was much closer to what I expected to be doing. I was to prepare documents, manage data or records, some data entry and scheduling meetings. The sort of stuff I had done before, while being part of an administrative assistant team. That"s what they called being an assistant to the main assistant, where I used to work. The down market left me out of a job and the main assistant with more work.
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Reworking my administrative resume cover letter worked great. The idea of going to run errands and getting coffee was far from what I wanted to do. Now with a little knowledge and a better presentation, I"m much closer to my goal.