Analysis of an example cover-letter. (2)

Notes: (1) Your resume must come with a cover-letter.  (2) A cover letter introduces you, and highlights certain important parts of your resume.  (3) This letter is only a “model”, for you to develop. 
 
     Where to keep, and how to maintain, adapt, and improve your cover-letter. 
 
     Keep–You should keep copies of your cover-letter on paper, on a “flash card”, and on the storage space of your Internet account. 
     Maintain–You should make changes to your cover-letter, as necessary.  Life is always changing, and so should your cover-letter.  Don’t forget to print out and store past versions.  They make interesting reading in later years, and one day, you will need them (especially if you enter government service, and your new leaders want to know exactly what you were doing “all those years ago”, and where, and with who).  Re-build the cover-letter, if necessary.  Accept other people’s comments. 
     Adapt–Print out and keep one “original” version, from which later, multiple versions will evolve; this is especially important, if you want to pursue two career tracks throughout the course of your life.  (For example, I might have a “teacher’s resume and cover-letter”, as well as a “translator’s resume and cover-letter”... both of which evolved from a common source. 
     Improve– You should constantly be gleaning and gathering information from various “life-experiences”, such as job interviews, “informational interviews”, the comments of other people, and your own observations.  Write this information down, and keep it in a special folder in your file-cabinet.