{"id":79,"date":"2010-07-21T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterindia.com\/career-advice\/customize-your-cover-letter-to-the-ad-79\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T06:31:42","slug":"customize-your-cover-letter-to-the-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/customize-your-cover-letter-to-the-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Customize Your Cover Letter to the Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found the perfect job through an ad? Before you whisk  off your resume and cover letter, study the ad and determine how your  qualifications match the employer&#8217;s requirements. Armed with this  information, you can craft a cover letter positioning yourself as the  ideal candidate.<\/p>\n<p>For example, look at this sample job ad:<br \/>\n______________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outside Sales Rep<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our client, a  fast-growing, Staten Island, NY-based software company has an opening  for an outside sales professional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A minimum of 3 years&#8217; outside  business-to-business experience selling enterprise software<\/li>\n<li>The  ability to develop a list of prospects, build a pipeline of  opportunities and close business<\/li>\n<li>A proven background  working within a quota and exceeding sales targets<\/li>\n<li>Ability  to demonstrate software and manage a complex sales cycle<\/li>\n<li>Strong  verbal and written communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Availability to  travel at least 50%<\/li>\n<li>Bachelor&#8217;s degree preferred<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Compensation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Competitive base  salary plus commission and company car.<\/li>\n<li>Average first  year income $85K+.<\/li>\n<li>Full benefits<\/li>\n<li>Quarterly  sales contests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are a true sales hunter and an  energetic self-starter with the desire to be part of a fast-growing  software firm, submit your resume and cover letter to Brandon Marks at  BMarks@somedomain.com. Reference #28903888.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found the perfect job through an ad? Before you whisk off your resume and cover letter, study the ad and determine how your qualifications match the employer&#8217;s requirements. Armed with this information, you can craft a cover letter positioning yourself as the ideal candidate. For example, look at this sample job ad: ______________________ Outside Sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-resume-cover-letters"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39394,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/39394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.com.vn\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}