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A sample letter to use as a guide when preparing your follow up letters can assist your job search, save you time, and make you look very professional.  Take a look at the following, and use it as a guide when preparing your own follow up letters.

SAMPLE FOLLOW UP LETTER

Date
Decision Maker, Position
Company
Address
City
State, Zip code
Dear (use name),

I wanted to touch base with you concerning my recent application with your company.  Knowing you are busy I’ve enclosed another copy of my resume for your review.

My interests and work experience are in the areas of sales and sales management.  Having worked with Xyz company for the past seven years as a sales representative, I have strong experience and believe I could be a strong asset to your organization.

I would appreciate the opportunity to visit with you in person, and will call next week to check on your availability.

Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
John Doe

Resume enclosed

Use this sample as a template, and change the relevant portions of it to fit your own skills, experience and interests.  Customize it, and send it out a week or ten days after you send out every resume, to each company that you’ve applied to.  Following up is a skill that many people fail to learn, and it can make all the difference in getting an interview.  Experiment with it, put sentences and paragraphs into your own words, and make it read like you wrote it.  Don’t get the impression that the letter must be used “as is” without changes.  It is a sample, or a template if you will, and is designed to be a guide for you to follow, not the end result itself.

This sample letter can also be used when applying online through the various job bank services on the Internet.  They all have a place for a resume and cover letter.  A week or ten days after applying, it doesn’t hurt to apply again, using the sample as a guide in the space normally reserved for a cover letter for your second application.

In addition to the follow up letter, your personal marketing toolbox should include other essentials.  These should include a well written resume, plenty of copies on good quality paper, a sample cover letter you can use for customization, copies of your reference sheet, a salary history, plain paper photo copies of letters of recommendation from previous employers, a sample thank you letter to use after the interview, and a job acceptance letter template you can use when you get hired. 

You’ll also need to practice your interviewing skills.  So you can see that while the follow up letter is valuable, there are many other things you need to have when job hunting if you want to look like the professional that you are.

Valuable Tip # 6: List the special trainings and short courses you have attended.

Special trainings that are relevant to current job application should be mentioned.  This would most likely involve specialized topics specific to a particular field – and if you have such special knowledge, you’ll have an edge.

It would even be best if you were able to try applying such knowledge on particular job settings so that you can include them in the CV to support the value of the training attended – and to prove that you learned useful stuff on such trainings. 

Valuable Tip # 7:  Forego mentioning of responsibilities and tasks.

Sentences or phrases that mention one’s responsibilities and tasks on previous employments should be avoided. 

Employers are not concerned so much on these things as they are more interested on what you have actually accomplished in the course of carrying out your job. 

The questions that matter most to them would be:  “Were you effective in carrying out your responsibilities?” and  “What were your major accomplishments?”

Valuable Tip # 8:  List your personal traits that will be of value.

Resourcefulness, having the initiative, proactive, honest, loyal, hardworking, smart and results-oriented – these are what you say you are.  And these are better claimed if backed by good and verifiable evidence as well. 

So limit such claims to those you can effectively show proof, otherwise it will just seem that you are feeding your ego, or possibly just fooling the reader.  Prospective employers will put less weight on such claims that are unverified and unproven sufficiently.   

Valuable Tip # 9:  Don’t go too far back in your employment history.

It would not be necessary to list all your employment experiences especially if has exceeded more than years, and you have been transferring from one job to another for several times already. 

An exception would be if these were relevant experiences to the current position applied for – and if your major accomplishments were on these times. 

Valuable Tip # 10:  Provide a summary for the key points of your CV at the top.

A summary of the main points of your qualifications will efficiently help the prospective employers know what you are about and what you can offer. 

So do this part carefully.  It is at this portion that you can choose the best from among your strong points to emphasize the edge you possess over all others applying for the same position.