5 Secrets to Writing a Good Application Letter

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At best, an application letter can help any job-seeker stand out from his competitors. At worst, it could make any promising candidate appear like an uncreative applicant. Sure, the internet might contain numerous tips and tricks on writing an application letter, but only a few give useful information besides the obvious tip to use a good grammar. For that reason, we listed down the secrets to writing a cover letter that anyone would want to read.

1. Use the Right Type of Application Letter

There are various types of cover letter than can be sent to contacts and employers. So make sure to choose the type of application letter that would reflect your professional personality. Your cover letter must be well-designed according to the purpose you’re writing and be customized for every position you are applying for.

2. Research About the Contact Person

Taking time to get personal is crucial when it comes to writing application letters. For that reason, find out as much as you can about the company you’re applying for, as well as the hiring manager who’ll be interviewing you. Personalize your letter and, if possible, address it to the person responsible for hiring. If you can, make a phone call to know who the hiring manager is.

3. Properly Format Your Cover Letter

How you format your application letter, both from its content to the way it’s presented is important. Even if you’re applying online and sending your letter via email, your cover letter should be properly formatted, readable and without any mistakes.

4. Start From an Application Letter Template

Using a cover letter template is a good way to get started in writing application letters for the particular job you’re seeking to apply. Choose a template that you can use to create your own personalized cover letter by simply adding your own information into the template.

5. Include Keywords in Your Letter

It’s important that you include recognition, result and skill keywords that match the description of the job you’re applying for. Also, ensure that you attest to your credential in your application letter so you can increase your chances of getting selected for an interview.

Contrary to what you think, a good application letter is a key factor to landing the job that you’ve always wanted. So be sure to put the aforementioned tips to work the next time you write and send an application later on your next job hunt.

Why You Crave Your Ex and its Linkage to Addiction, According to Science

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It is a Friday night and you are home alone with a bottle of beer. You miss your ex so badly that your chest aches. You try to deny the thought of him/her but to no avail, and you catch yourself on Facebook, scrolling through your ex’s new pictures and status. You are totally aware that it would sound insane to contact him/her after all this time, but in a moment of human frailty you grab your phone and text him/her “I miss you”… SEND. You are exactly at a point of no return.

An hour passes and you still get no reply. You feel embarrassed, foolish and regret for sending that message. You start to create pity parties in your head asking yourself why you keep on reaching out when it only makes you suffer. Regardless how hard you try to hold it, you are simply impulsive, vulnerable and irrational like a junk addict craving for a fix.

Love is Like a Drug

This sounds ridiculously dramatic but not far from reality. A scientific study reveals that there is a psychological and physiological basis why a person aches for his/her past lover. Researchers have correlated rejection made by a romantic lover to a brain movement accompanied with addiction cravings. With the help of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), adult participants who were rejected by their former lovers but are still romantically in love with them, activated the key areas of their brain after viewing their ex’s photographs.

Specifically, researchers observed activation of orbitofrontal cortex that is accompanied by cravings/hunger, insular cortex associated with distress and ventral tegmental area which is reportedly responsible for romantic feelings. According to Dr. Lucy Brown, clinical professor in Albert Einstein College of Medicine, their findings suggest that romantic kind of feeling, regardless of circumstances, may be considered a natural addiction. Romantic kind of pain may be a necessary part of our life as nature has wired it into our physiology and anatomy. Emotional recovery, on the other hand, is in our anatomy too.

Are We Trapped by Biology?

Wanting your ex back may have scientific explanations but it does not disqualify the fact that it’s also a psychological matter, a behavior of ours that we have complete control of. Even if science tells us that your desire to reunite with a former lover after rejection is a natural thing, it is still your discretion to tolerate this addiction or not. In an article about creating successful relationships, written by a contributor of Go Magazine SG, teenagers were advised not to take rejection on a personal level.

“When we approach a potential partner, we have to say to ourselves over and over again, ‘No matter how this person reacts to me, I know I am a worthwhile person.’” (Jeffers 1992:93) If you have a good picture of your self-worth, it is still possible to live a satisfying life even after the love is gone. Just like heroin addiction, holding on to the past will leave you exactly right where you are—behind.