Dynamic Cover Letters from the web!

We all know that every resume you send out needs to have a cover letter. Even on an email.

Go from:

Dear Hiring Manager,

I am writing this letter as application for positions in your company.

To this (Yes, it is a poor example, but it is late) :

Dear Mr. Jones,

I am writing this letter as application for Web Development positions at Jobster.com .

How much time do you spend creating each letter to send to a potential employer. I discovered that I was spending at least half an hour on each application. So, I ended up with 2-3 cover letters that covered all job types that I would copy and paste address information into. Next I moved on to using Word to generate mail merged letters with address information from a spreadsheet.

This worked well unless I was sending the letter by email or was trying to do my job search away from home.

What I’ve done with JobSearchLog is to allow you to input information about the jobs you wish to apply for into a web database, create cover letters with tokens to show where information from the database should be included. This is done now through a Cover Letter Wizard which allows you to have complete control of the format and content of your letter and takes approximately 10 minutes to complete each letter.

You may create as many letters as you wish to meet your needs and a cover letter can be associated with a job, ad or company to email or print. JobSearchLog also keeps history of which letters were sent to a job or company.

Take a look and please let me know what you think.

Michael