With every CV or resume submission, you should have a cover letter that accompanies it and presents you as a positive and qualified candidate for the job. A cover letter should highlight areas of your resume which promote your professional experience, and should address any questions an employer may have about hiring you for the job.

There are five common cover letter mistakes that you must avoid in order to get through the first round of CV or resume review and move one step closer to getting the job that you want.

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The most commonly made mistake in job applications is not including a cover letter at all. If you are emailing your CV or resume, the cover letter can be included in the body of the email, or attached (although employers typically prefer no attachments in email submissions).

Omitting a cover letter from your job application appears unprofessional to your potential employer; having a well-written, personalised cover letter allows the employer to get an insight into who you are, how you communicate and how you present yourself as a professional.

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Many professionals spend hours writing and re-writing their cover letter. With each CV or resume submission, we tend to revise our cover letter to make sure that it is personalised for the position we are applying for. While we spend so much time on the content of the cover letter, we seem to disregard a very important and prominent area of the letter – the address line. Most mistakes in the cover letter are made in the address line.

If mistakes are made in the address line, it is likely that the potential employer will discard the letter and you will lose an opportunity to be considered as a candidate for the job that you want.

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