The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job by Charles Max Wood

Author:Charles Max Wood [Wood, Charles Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: BestSellersGuild.com
Published: 2019-11-16T05:00:00+00:00

6.1.1 The Introduction

The introduction in the cover letter is basically a summary of your resume. It introduces the employer to you, but it also highlights the parts of your resume you want them to pay particular attention to. While you don’t explicitly call this out, if they read the cover letter first, their minds will naturally gravitate to those parts of the resume.

It also gives some context for the rest of the cover letter by providing them with a description of what you believe your qualifications are.

A good introduction will do the following:

● List your achievements.

● Highlight any relevant skills or knowledge you have.

● Let them know how long you’ve been working in the field.

● Note any other qualifications you have.

In our example, you can see that it lists my achievements. It talks about building and architecting social networks and recording over 1,000 podcasts. If you’re new, these could be graduating from a bootcamp, building particular side projects, participating in open source projects, writing a blog, and many other things. If you’re an experienced developer, this will likely be more on the side of how you’ve taken leadership on a team, specific contributions to projects at the jobs you’ve held, and any areas you’re especially skilled in or in which you’ve pioneered unique solutions.

Your introduction should be no more than 1 paragraph long. Anything essential that would make it longer than a paragraph should be worked into the other parts of the cover letter. For example, you’ll notice that I worked the bit about freelancing and the bit about podcasts into other parts of the resume. That gave it emphasis. However, if I were applying to a company where I had direct experience and couldn’t fit it all into the introduction. I’d mention it while talking about why I’d like to work for them by stating that “I especially enjoyed…” doing the thing they do “while working on…” that other project that looks a lot like theirs.

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