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How to write a Cover Letter

Every cover letter should be unique. Recommending a specific form to follow for your cover letter would actually hurt your chances of getting a job – you don’t want your cover letter to sound like everyone else’s! What I do recommend is that you write every cover letter individually, targeting the specific needs of that particular job. You cannot edit your cover letter once it’s been submitted, so take the time to make it perfect before you apply!

While I can’t tell you exactly how to write the perfect cover letter, I can offer some basic guidelines about what to include (and what not to).

Don’t include your contact information in your cover letter (your email address, chat ID, etc.). This is a violation of oDesk policy and makes you an easy target for an unscrupulous buyer. When you are invited to an interview, then you are free to share whatever contact info you wish.

Don’t start with a “To Whom It May Concern” or “Dear Sir” greeting. Neither adds any value and they may even offend some buyers. If you do include a greeting, find a gender-neutral way to say hello or use the buyer’s name (if they’ve mentioned it).

Don’t copy and paste the same cover letter over and over again, even if you ‘fill in the blanks’ with specifics for the job at hand. Just as you can tell when a buyer posts a template job description, a buyer can tell you’re using a form cover letter. If you don’t put in the effort to write a custom letter, they are unlikely to take the time to interview you.

Do try to use the same keywords the buyer did. This shows you were paying attention to their job post.

Do answer specific questions or include special keywords the buyer put in the job description to prove you can follow directions. That is, unless the buyer is asking for your contact info or otherwise violating oDesk policy – in that case you should flag the job as inappropriate.

Do link directly to some relevant examples of your work whenever possible. Make sure you’ve added them in your portfolio as well.

Do state your availability (when and how much you can work) and explain what kind of commitments you have to any other oDesk assignments, regular employers, etc.

Cover letter of writing job

Hello there

First of all I’ve got to express my deepest pleasure to get to know this exquisite site where I can possibly explore my potential in English language in a massive scale.

Dear Sir, to give you a brief of me I feel like starting with my extensive passion towards English language. Educationally I’m a Textile engineer and I passed B.Sc in 2008.In a contrast, before I graduated myself I started teaching English back in 2006 at a language centre. My passion towards English got denser and denser that I almost started ignoring my engineering study.
Being a good teacher I have never thought I’m done learning rather as time went by I grew up to be a serious student of language which as a result made me a language writer. I authored a book named ‘Real Life Spoken English for Advanced Learners’, Future Publications Ltd., Feb, 2009.

All I want to say is working on language has always been an added attraction to me. If you want to know me more before you have the final talk please ask me what to do.

Along with a letter a recent work sample of me is attached. Months back I wrote the webpage contents for my present company. Have a look through and come back to me with your comments.

Look forward to hear back from you.

Regards

Engr. Md. Firoj khan

How to create Odesk account

People who interested in freelancing should know how to create a profile. Creating a effective profile in a Freelancing site is The starting of freelancing and also a important part of Freelancing. There are some well known sites for freelancing such as Odesk , Elance, Rentacoder, Getafreelancer etc. Among the sites Odesk is the better one. I feel like to give u the step by step instruction with picture. I hope it will be very helpful for you to start. If you can’t understand anything just ask me by comment on it. So enjoy creating profile.

Here I made a Pdf file for you all new freelancer on how to create and account on oDesk and how to enrich the account to apply for job. Here You all can read my post on the same topic but I also made a pdf for your betterment. So click Below the link for Download the Pdf free.

Free download Pdf of oDesk account

Here I prefer u all to create the profile from my site link and also you can learn everything needed for freelancing from my site. First go to my site http://www.careerstairs.com . If you can’t understand anything just ask me by comment on it. So enjoy creating profile.

In my site there is a banner of Odesk. Just click on the banner then it will show you the odesk site

In upper right corner of the site we can see the tab “Create an account” click on it. A window Get started will appear given below-

There are three options of profile type. Choose 2nd option as freelance Contractor and click on the tab. It will appear the application form like below-

Fill up the form give a suitable user name that you have to use every time of log in. And use a strong and secure password with the combination of numerical digit and latter.

After completing the form fill up click Continue then you will see the window name post your profile given below-

Here you must complete all 4 Steps before you can activate your profile.

First click on verify your email address. You will see an email verification window given below-

You can even close the tab.

An email sent to your email account you use in the form. Log in your email account then you will see an email given below and click on the confirmation URL.

You will see a window of email verification. Click on “click here to continue”

Then step 1 is complete. Now click on step 2 name “fill out contact information

It will appear the contact information form. Fill up the form and click on “Save and Continue”

Step 2 is complete. Click on complete your oDesk profile

You will see some field (category and sub category) of job. Check Boxes you want to apply for job or you are expert in the field.

You can choose as many as you want and all these information can change any time

Here primary Role that in which field you wants to do job.

Desired hourly rate is that usually in which hourly rate you want to apply for job

Availability is that how much hour you can spend in a week for a job.

Title that how you want to introduce yourself to employers

After completing the form click on “Save and continue”

It just completed the step 3 then click on step 4 user agreement. this is the last and very simple step. You will see a user agreement window. Check the square box for the agreement then click on “save and continue”

After completing all 4 steps here will appear the window “post my profile” just click on it then you successfully created the account.

Now post your Profile By clicking “post my profile”

You can see your contractor profile. Remember you are a contractor of oDesk by creating the account.

Now three additional steps appear in your profile. You can complete the steps any time you want.

I’m now explaining the steps for your better understanding.

Download &install oDesk team:

There is 2 types of job in oDesk one is fixed price and another is Hourly. For hourly job you need to Download & install oDesk team application which is software that count how much hour u worked in a week. Every time you r doing job, you must Resume or start the oDesk team application.

Complete your contractor profile:

In this step add a portrait, skill details and Background information making you more attractive to potential clients.

Take free oDesk skill tests:

To make an effective profile you have to take some test that will helpful to get a job easily. You can take any kind of test you want .you better Take those tests in which field you are expert.

You can even know more about this by oDesk help center or by FAQ.

In your account summery you can see that profile completeness is 20% and beside that a link of “add skill to your profile” to get to 30%. Just click on it and enrich your profile step by step to 100%. Remember that you must complete your profile to 100% to apply for a job

I will show you the step by step by step instruction of how will you enrich your profile to 100% in my next articles.

There is a messages system in the site oDesk. You can send mail to any where through oDesk mail and all mail sent to you for job in this mail Box.

If any question comes in your mind any time feel free to asked me through my site or by comment on the article. my site URL is http://www.careerstairs.com

Dealing with customers

Hello there!! First of all I want to thank you for choosing this website to read out. Yes, I’m going to tell you a few things about your career, and these will help you to get yourself improved. I can assure you that you’ll be more confident and wise after reading this.

Whatever you want to do, you’ll have to deal with two kind customers. And those are
1. Internal customers.
2. External customers.
Internal customers are your boss, team member, manager, team leader, and cleaner, who ever works in your company or shop.
External customers are the customers whom you serve to, who comes from outside to get your service. That could be me or the prime minister. (Who knows!!)
Here, at this point I have to say you something, always be nice with the customers and speak to them in level which contains the highest level of respect. I’m going to add a quote for you “Treat everyone in the way want to be treated in”. So I’m sure that u would not like to see an angry face in the morning. Or just an unfamiliar look from the server.