click, click, click (goes the mouse)

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Specializes in None yet.....

Can you relate?

It's been a handful of hours just clicking and editing. Hmm, let's change a word there, another there and walla!...this cover letter is ready for launch:up:

Hours and hours of button clicking and tweaking cover letters. And to think that I may never get a call back......sheesh! No, Silly mind!!! Don't think like that lol

When is enough, enough??? When has it reached that time when you sign off/get off the computer/application websites and tell yourself, "Yes! I put in my effort for today" and then go and do something else i.e. watch a movie, look in the mirror and admire yourself?

I think I've reached it.

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Yes! I've lost count of how many versions of my cover letter/resume I've made. I save cover letters for each facility I apply to, and change a little for whatever unit Im applying. Im always so nervous that Ill attach the wrong file no matter how many times I double check.

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Specializes in None yet.....

I just started making separate folders for each institution that I apply to, and then save each position's resume into their respective institution folder. What gets me a little is the file naming process. What format do you choose to name your cover letters? I often combine a cover letter with a resume on one document to ensure that my cover letter gets read. Have you done the same? Do you make it point that the name of such a (combined) document reflects this info in it?

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

Tweak away...a tweak is a tweak away from that job.

Folders are best; each application and cover letter should be as specific as possible to the position that one is applying to.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I've never written a cover letter for any type of nursing job. My application, resume and inside connections have always been sufficient enough to generate a callback. However, I see that the OP is in NYC, which has an ultra competitive nursing job market.

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I've never written a cover letter for any type of nursing job. My application, resume and inside connections have always been sufficient enough to generate a callback. However, I see that the OP is in NYC, which has an ultra competitive nursing job market.

lol and you have 8 years of experience meaning that you started 8 years ago when there was an actual nursing shortage :( unlike now when there's a glut

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