On 11/7 I attended a stars careers workshop. I attended the cover letters andother business correspondenceworkshop. In the workshop, the instructors taught us the do’s and dont of writing a cover letter. They taught us how to organize a cover letter (with the intro, body and conclusion). Then we had an interactive group session where we all got into different groups and were given 3 different cover letters by the same person and we were asked to rank the likelihood of hiring that person based on their cover letter and explain why. Not only was this workshop really informative but it was also really interactive which (in my opinion) engaged everyone to want to participate.
I really enjoyed this workshop because it is so relevant to my life. In the past, when applying to jobs, I would be asked to write cover letters but I had no idea what that was. Generally that would result in me asking my brothers and cousins to send me theirs so I can get an idea of what I should write. After this detailed workshop, I know I no longer need to guess about what I should write rather, I have now gained the knowledge of writing one on my own.
PS I also have a sheet that was signed by one of the instructors
-Sarah Natanov