Writing Job Search Letters is Major Burden and Complaint for Job Seekers, According to Recent ITS Survey
"I find I can waste a half hour or more trying to compose a single letter, and when you don't hear back, it gets very discouraging." One of the more common complaints ITS hears from job seekers each month is the time and effort required to compose letters in a job search. It can often lead to inertia.
Thousands of job seekers visit our websites each month, many of them to take advantage of the free services they can get there, including a free resume analysis and a comparison of how they stack up to their competition in more than 200 different characteristics. In the course of helping them, ITS routinely asks them what their biggest complaints are about job seeking in general.
'Most people don't have a lot of experience writing letters about themselves," observed Tom Smith, Managing Director of ITS on the West Coast. "And for many job search letters to be effective, you first need to write about an industry and/or a company. Small wonder so many people complain."
"We solve the problem two ways," added Smith. "First, we put together the best collection of letters for every type of letter you're likely to need. They're easy to adapt. Clients continually tell us so. For those who prefer we do the writing, we'll create the job search letters they need. That adds to the cost, and some don't mind a bit. For most, though, they are totally satisfied with the samples we provide, and they volunteer really positive comments about them."
ITS services address all of these issues for clients we serve.
