Covering letter is the summary of your resume, and it is your 5 seconds sales pitch to sell yourself, why you are suitable and why the manger wants to hire you.
You should tailor made a covering letter for each job (and probably your resume as well). You may not believe it, they made the decision when they read your covering letter, the resume is a mean to justify their decision, rahter or not to give you an interview.
And the first paragraph is the most important part of your resume. For those who need to review 20+ applicants would understand my argument. Say each applicant have 1 page of covering letter and 2 pages of resume, you need to read over 60 pages. And believe me, if you are a busy manager, you don't want to go over all 60 pages. You just want to go into details on those interest you.
Remember, the frist 5 seconds count.
You should tailor made a covering letter for each job (and probably your resume as well). You may not believe it, they made the decision when they read your covering letter, the resume is a mean to justify their decision, rahter or not to give you an interview.
And the first paragraph is the most important part of your resume. For those who need to review 20+ applicants would understand my argument. Say each applicant have 1 page of covering letter and 2 pages of resume, you need to read over 60 pages. And believe me, if you are a busy manager, you don't want to go over all 60 pages. You just want to go into details on those interest you.
Remember, the frist 5 seconds count.