The importance of your cover letter in the hunt for employment cannot be stressed enough. The quality and composition of your cover letter will be the key factor on whether an HR director chooses to view your resumé or disregard it so you’ll want to spend some time preparing and polishing it to take full advantage of your brief window of opportunity. To that end, here is a quick guide to help your cover letters stand out and be noticed. You only have one opportunity to make a long…

How do you write a perfect cover letter?

The best one is short and has a hook in it that will make the employer’s eyes pop out.

What will make someone’s eyes pop out?

That depends on whose eyes are reading it, what that person’s business problems are, and what you can do to help solve those problems:

The company is located in Ohio and in the biotech business.  Biotech companies tend to be clustered in a handful of areas – Philadelphia/New Jersey, Boston, North Carolina and California. …