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Dynamic Cover Letters
Job-Search Cover Letter Tutorial


 

Page 53 of the Cover Letter Tutorial: Examples

 

Quantifying Examples from Job-Search Cover Letters:

 

    Each summer I worked at Mayfair, I increased my sales by 50 percent over the previous year.

     

     

    My weekly totals of meal sales were 20 percent higher than those of the other servers in the restaurant.

     

     

    I supervised four other camp counselors.

     

     

    I served a customer base of 150, the largest on my customer-service team.

     

     

    In my first year with the department, I was able to cut waste by more than 25 percent.

 


 

See also... variations on quantifying in cover letters that give superlatives and "firsts."

 

... and also: Exemplifying means providing examples that lend credibility to your qualifications. examples from job-seeker cover letters.

 


 

 

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