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Research Shows the Best Resumes and Cover Letters Use These Words and Phrases
Research Shows the Best Resumes and Cover Letters Use These Words and Phrases (in Moderation) If you want to land an interview, create resumes and cover letters that are light on self-promotion and heavy on ingratiation. While your résumé won’t get you the job you really want, if you’re following a standard hiring process, a good cover letter and résumé are necessary to get you to the next stage, the interview (which is when you had better be ready for the most commonly asked job interview questions). Oddly enough, though, “good” doesn’t necessarily mean standing out from the crowd, taking a clever new approach, or simply making sure you don’t…