EFINANCIAL, 11 March 2025: ‘The cover letter that will get you a job in a bank’
What makes a good cover letter? It’s your a sales pitch. “You are a product in an extremely competitive banking job market,” McLean says. “Your future employer – the bank recruitment team – is the buyer.” And like with sales, there is a general best way to write a cover letter.
It’s worth doing it properly if you’re going to do it at all. “As the candidate,” McLean says, “you will be investing a lot of time into each one you write so you need to ensure that you do it right, and that you don’t waste time writing letters that won’t be read or on applications that are destined to fail.” Some of the most common mistakes when writing a cover letter are to do with a lack of preperation.
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