Cover Letter Examples and Writing Tips

Cover Letter Examples and Writing Tips

By Alison Doyle
Updated January 16, 2017

When applying for a job a cover letter should be sent or posted with your resume or curriculum vitae. This collection of free professionally written cover letter examples will help you get started.

Below you'll find both hard copy and email examples, for a variety of different types of employment inquiries and job applications including general cover letters, cold

contact cover letters, referral letters, customized cover letters, job promotion letters, networking outreach letters, and letters to inquire about unadvertised openings.

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Job Application Letter Examples: A - Z List

Job Application Letter Examples: A - Z List

By Alison Doyle

Updated August 06, 2016

Are you getting ready to submit a job application? In many cases, you will need to submit a letter with information on your qualifications and credentials along with your other application materials. 

What to Include in a Job Application Letter

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Job List by Industry

Job List by Industry

Positions, Descriptions,and Qualification

Interested in starting a career or looking for a new career? Thinking about changing jobs? If you're interested in making a change, here's information on the qualifications required for a variety of jobs in 

different career fields, industries and types of positions.

Whether you're looking for a dream job or one where you can make the most money, or both, here's the scoop on what you need to get hired, including education and experience requirements, where to find job listings, job search and interview advice, salary information and more for numerous occupations and career fields.

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Practical Job Searching Tips for Millennials

Practical Job Searching Tips for Millennials

How to Find a Job as a Young Worker in This Changing Landscape

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Tips for Getting Hired By Your Dream Company- How to "Track" Your Dream Job

Tips for Getting Hired By Your Dream Company

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Reporting Capital Gains and Losses with IRS Form 8949-Tax Planning in the U.S.

Tax Planning in the U.S.

Reporting Capital Gains and Losses with IRS Form 8949

New Form 8949 to be used starting in 2011

New Form 8949 to be used starting in 2011

The IRS has unveiled a new tax form for reporting capital gains and losses from stocks, bonds, mutual funds and similar investments. Starting with the 2011 tax year, investment transactions will be reported on the new Form 8949, Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets. A pdf version of

Form 8949 is posted at the IRS Web site; instructions for this new form is included with the instructions for Schedule D.

The IRS has also revised Schedule D and Form 1099-B.

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Tax Planning in the U.S.- Sale of Your Home

Tax Planning in the U.S.

Sale of Your Home

Capital Gains Taxes

By William Perez
Updated September 20, 2016

If you sold your main home and made a profit, you may be able to exclude that profit from your taxable income. Here's how it works.

$250,000 Exclusion on the Sale of the Main Home

Individuals can exclude up to $250,000 in profit from sale of the main home (or $500,000 for a married couple) as long as you have owned the home and lived in the home for a minimum of two years. Those two years do not need to be consecutive.

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Best States for Retirees

By Tonya Moreno, CPAUpdated February 02, 2017

Some places are more tax-friendly than others for retirees. And if you’re living on a fixed income, the less money you spend on taxes, the more you’ll have to enjoy your golden years. To find the most tax-friendly states for retirees, we’ll look at the three main types of state taxes: income

tax, property tax, and sales tax.

States Without an Income Tax

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How to Wear Red and Pink on Valentine's Day

How to Wear Red and Pink on Valentine's Day

 

By Taylor Davies

Women's Fashion Expert

The Most Stylish Red & Pink Pieces to Wear for Your Valentine

Updated January 25, 2017.

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Easy Moves to Relieve Tension and Pain in Your Neck

Easy Moves to Relieve Tension and Pain in Your Neck

By Anne Asher, CPT
Updated January 31, 2017

Neck pain and tension is often related to your day in and day out posture. For example, slaving over a computer for your job may contribute or even cause a problem known as kyphosis (rounded upper

back) as well as a related forward head posture. If so, you likely crane your neck forward so you can see your computer when you work, the road when you drive and more.

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Flower Picking Farms

Celosia Flowers, an Uncommon Beauty

ByJamie McIntosh Flowers Expert

They may look to you like feathery plumes, a rooster’s comb, or an alien’s brain. It’s easy to anthropomorphize this charming garden flower, also known as cockscomb, which sparkles in rainbow hues all season in your full sun garden from summer to fall. The

National Garden Bureau declared 2006 to be the year of the celosia, shining the spotlight on an underused annual.

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How Long Should Headlights Last ?

How Long Should Headlights Last?

by Jeremy Laukkonen

Question: How long should headlights last?

I don’t know how long the first set of headlights

in my car lasted, but it was a long time. Then one burned out, so I just replaced both to be safe, and one of the new ones burned out really fast. Way faster than the originals. Maybe I got lucky with the first ones, or maybe I got some bad replacements. But now I’m wondering if these new replacement headlights are going to burn out fast too. How long are headlights supposed to last?

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Don't Make These 11 Mistakes While Visiting Hawaii

Don't Make These 11 Mistakes While Visiting Hawaii

By John Fischer

Hawaii Travel Expert

                                                                                                                                   

 

Avoid the following 11 pitfalls on your next trip to Hawaii to ensure the best       (and safest) trip to paradise.

1.  Don't Tell a Local or Fellow Visitor That You're from the USA

If someone asks you where you are from, don't say "the USA." Hawaii is a US State and has been so since 1959. It is the 50th State in the Union.

If someone asks you where you are from you can say either "the mainland" or just specify the city and/or state where you live.

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How to Raise Your Visibility at Work

                                    

                        

How to Raise Your Visibility at Work

  By Susan M. Heathfield

Are you used to flying below the radar at work? Think not being noticed will keep your job safe? Not anymore. The best strategy now is to figure out how you can raise your visibility at work — in positive ways. You want to get noticed at work.

Additionally, if your job is tedious or repetitive, you can request alternative activities to break up the monotony of your everyday work. No matter the job, it is difficult to do the exact same work all day long, even if you love the work and the customers.

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When and Where to Buy the Cheapest Chocolate

                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                         

When and Where to Buy the Cheapest Chocolate

By Erin Huffstetler

If you want to indulge your chocoholic tendencies for less money, the best time to buy chocolate is...November, January, and February.

Find the Cheapest Chocolate After a Holiday

Special holiday packaging is a great selling point in the weeks leading up to a holiday, but it isn't much of one after the holiday has passed. If you don't mind off-season packaging, you can get chocolate for 75-90 percent off after any candy-rich holiday.

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Don't Waste Your Money On These Skincare Products or Ingredients

By Hanah Tetro

Skin Care Expert

Don't Waste Your Money On These Skincare Products or Ingredients

It can be confusing to know which skin care products you absolutely need and which ones are just a bunch of marketing hype.  In addition, are there skin care ingredients that are a true waste of your money?  Knowing what to buy and what to skip can be hard.  Find out here which skin care products and skin care ingredients are best to just leave on the shelf.

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Spicy Sweet Potato and Quinoa Salad

By Jolinda HackettVegetarian Food Expert

      Spicy Sweet Potato and Quinoa Salad

This sweet potato quinoa salad recipe is high in protein, low in fat,

and high in spicy and sweet flavor! Whole grain quinoa cooks quicker than most grains and is an excellent source of protein for vegetarians with about 11 grams of protein per cup of cooked quinoa.

I love the way the quinoa sort of sticks to the sweet potatoes in this dish, creating a completely new texture. It makes me want to try this recipe with kaniwa (quinoa's baby cousin), or even teff, which I find to be extra "sticky", as far as whole grains go. 

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8 Lucky Colors To Wear in 2017

8 Lucky Colors To Wear in 2017

Rodika TchiFeng Shui Expert

The tradition to wear specific colors in order to attract good luck is popular all over the world. As everything is energy - including color - what you wear is believed to bring you all manner of luck and success.

The same choice of colors is believed to bring you luck when you use these colors in your accessories, as well as in your home decor.

Is this true, though? Does it really work? And, most importantly, what is the choice of specific colors to wear based on?

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How Your Diet Affects Your Health

How Your Diet Affects Your Health:

An Overview of Nutrition

By Shereen Lehman, MS - Reviewed by a board-certified physician.

Updated September 30, 2016

Nutrition is the process of consuming food and having the body use it as raw materials for growth, fuel, and function. But there are various parts that comprise overall nutrition, including actual nutrients, reasons to eat healthy, ways to eat smart, and much more.

Macronutrients: Carbohydrates, Protein, and Fats

The foods you eat provide the energy your body needs to work. Just like you need to put fuel in your car or recharge your cell phone battery, your body needs to be fed food that provides it with energy every day.

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Heairing loss

Heairing loss

Hearing loss was divided into three categories: sensorineural hearing loss, which results from damage to the inner ear, damage to the nerve that runs from the ear to the brain, or damage to the brain; conductive hearing loss, which occurs when sound cannot travel through the ear properly; and combined hearing loss, which is a

combination of the two.

The researchers found that the people with iron deficiency anemia were 2. 4 times more likely to have combined hearing loss compared with those who did not have iron deficiency anemia. The people with iron deficiency anemia were also 1. 8 times more likely to have sensorineural hearing loss. There was no link, however, between iron deficiency anemia and conductive hearing loss, according to the study.

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