Download our course handouts so you have all of the key information available to you at any time. There’s a selection of recaps and projects, which will be especially helpful for those of you using this course to build your cover letter from scratch.

#1 Course introduction | Recap

Learn who Hitmarker is, why we’re worth listening to, and how this course will operate in this handout.

#2 - What does a cover letter do? | Recap

A bite-sized summary of what your cover letter should achieve. It’s worth returning to this once you’ve completed your cover letter.

#3 What should a cover letter highlight? | Lesson Project

Your project for this lesson will help you develop an important skill for writing a cover letter. We’d like you to find a dream job and pick out a few of its key responsibilities. Then think about your profile and aim to come up with a few things you could mention in your cover letter that would support your fit for this role. Look over handout #3 - ‘What should a cover letter highlight?’ for some help with this, as we’ll be utilizing what you come up with later in the course.

#4 - How do you open a cover letter? | Lesson Project

Your project here is to use the information covered in the lesson to put together the first paragraph of a cover letter, either to a job you’re actually going to apply for or a placeholder position in the same field. In handout #4 - ‘How do you open a cover letter?’ you’ll find some salutations you can use that are both friendly and professional.

#5 - Writing a valuable paragraph | Lesson Project

This project will build on what you did at the end of lesson #3. Using the points that you picked out earlier, we want you to put these into action by writing the P, E, and A sections of a PEAL paragraph as detailed in this lesson. And to help you on your way, there are some example P, E, and A sentences in handout #5 - ‘Writing a valuable paragraph’. Review these to get an idea of what they should look like, then have a go at writing your own.

#6 - So what? Making your points matter | Lesson Project

This project follows on from the previous lesson’s, where we’ll be going through the PEAL paragraphs you put together and adding that final Link sentence to complete them. There are examples to help you in handout #6 - ‘So what? Making your points matter’. Once you’ve written them, have a go at highlighting each paragraph four different colours to make sure you’ve hit every aspect of PEAL. If you’ve missed anything, fix it, and if there are parts that don’t fit into any of the four categories then consider removing them.

#7 - Closing your cover letter | Lesson Project

The project for this lesson is a short one as we’ve nearly finished putting together that dream cover letter! Using the video’s advice, write a cover letter sign off that achieves the right tone.

#8 - Finishing touches | Lesson Project

Now that you’ve put together your cover letter, your lesson project is to give it a final look over before either a) sending it out to the job you’re applying to or b) finalizing it as a reference you can use when applying to jobs in the future.

As mentioned in the video, if you need a refresher on how to save your cover letter as a PDF—the generally-preferred format—then we have a step-by-step guide in this lesson’s handout.

#9 - What now? | Recap

A goodbye message from us thanking you for completing our course!

Krista Belocura

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