Cover letter是求职信里的一部分，一般在求职信中简要介绍自己的情况，以及你要申请的职位。或者在你了解某个公司招聘的具体位置后，表达自己有意从事这个职位的意愿，说明自己有做好这个职位的经验和能力。同时也包括将求职信封里的所有资料列成的清单。

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   Cover letters are quite possibly THE most important part of the application process. Cover letters are what get your resume noticed, and they are what will get you the interview. After you've been invited for an interview, your chances of getting the job are much better. Until you've received that call though, you're totally in the dark. Cover letters are all about getting that interview invitation call.   So, to help you build the best possible cover letter, I'll be sending you a short series of tips that will enable you to build the attention-getting cover letter that you need to stand out from the crowd.Tip: Identify Your Target Market 。  Today's tip, taken from the world of marketing, (after all, this is about marketing and selling yourself!) is to identify your target market. That is the first step in any marketing campaign, and it should be the first step in writing a cover letter as well.  Find out as much as you can about the company, and specifically, the department you're applying to. What is their mission, their goals and their objectives? How do they do business? What are their services policies and standards, etc etc.

Once you know these things, think about how your own objectives, values and experiences fit into and complement those of the company. Without sounding cheesy, weave these things into your cover letter. Your goal is to show them that you are trying to achieve the same things they are, or that you have a similar philosophy, or whatever the commonality is that you identify.

When doing this research, a great place to start is Google and the company website. You might be surprised what you can find just with these two tools!

The next step is sometimes more difficult, but just as important, and well worth the effort. As part of the target market, you need to identify exactly who the person is that will be receiving your application. Name, title, etc. Sometimes this is easy, and you'll be given this information at the outset. Other times it may take some digging.

One excellent way to go about this is simply to phone the company and ask the secretary who that person is. If you're too embarrassed, get a friend to phone for you from a phone booth while pretending they have whooping cough. You don't have to say who you are, it can be anonymous.

The point of this exercise is to be able to put the correct name on the paper. It sounds trivial, but it will separate you from the rest immediately. People notice their own name on paper, and seeing their name on your cover letter will give you a bit of an advantage in a sea of "To Whom It May Concern" letters.

In today's highly competitive job market, you need every edge you can get. Applying these market research principles will help you gain that edge.

A cover letter is the one you write to the editorial board of the journals when you submit your manuscript.

One cover letter generally should include the following parts:

(1)The correspondence information of the correspondent;

(2)The title of the manuscript, the numbers of tables, figures, charts, plates and so on;

(3)The statement that this manucript has never been partly or wholely published in or submitted to any other journals;

(4)The statement that all authors in the manuscript have agreed to submit it to this journal and it's better to have each one's signature;

(5)The statement that the research in the manuscript has been conducted under the guidance of international ethical standards if the research uses animals as experimental materials;

(7)Suggested reviewers you think that are appropriate for this manuscript;

(8)The statement on the inapropriate reviewers for this manuscript, and it's better to state the reasons in concise words;

(9)Some journals require the authors to briefly introduce his research purposes, methods and results.

The following is one cover letter I wrote with a plate given by the two professors.

Zhang San, Ph D

Environment and Architecture School,

Sichuan University

Mozhiqiao, Ring One Road, Chengdu, Sichuan

The People’s Republic of China

Zip code: 610088

E-mail: abc@yahoo.com.cn

Dear Dr. Richard

I enclose a manuscript entitled The Preparation of the Monokaryon Protoplast and its Regeneration in Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus), which I submit for possible publication in the Jounal of Biosource Technology. All of the authors agree to the submission of this paper.

The text includes 20 pages, 3 tables, and 2 figures prepared using Microsoft Word Processing 2003 according to the journal's Instructions to Authors.  We have provided all required supporting documentation.

We respectfully submit that the following individuals would be suitable peer reviewers based on their expertise in the field:

Li Yu, Microbiological Research Institute, Chinese Acadmey of Agricutlureal Sciences. E-mail: li_yu@yahoo.cn

Zhang Jun, Resources and Environmental Protection School, Sichuan Agricultural University. E-mail: zhangjun@yahoo.cn

Chen Wei,  School of Horticulture, China Agricultural University. E-mail: chenwei@yahoo.cn

In recent years, our research group has had some conflicts with Li Haha and Wang Chuachua in Sichuan Institute of Microbiology in project application. We request that these individuals not be consulted.

We thank you for considering this work and look forward to your response.  Please direct all correspondence about this manuscript to me (or Dr. Zhang San, e-amil: Zhangsan@yahoo.cn).

Sincerely

Zhang Shan

e-mail: zhangsan@yahoo.com.cn

The following are all the authors in this paper and their signature.

Zhang San   XXX

Li   Si       XXX

Wang Wu  XXX

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