help! My cover letter stinks!

[Celtfire]

I'm going to be graduating the end of next month and the last week I've been working on my resume and cover letters. Well, I need some ideas. My cover letter sounds like a giant "I'm the best person in the world" butt kissing letter. I need ideas on how to tone it down and what are the nurse recuiters looking for in the cover letters. I have no experiance except the clinical time in school. I aim to get a job at the local medical college/Hopsital. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thank you, Stacey (future LPN)

[VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN]

dear stacey:

these links should help you immensely:

resume writing tips for nurses

resume writing do's and don'ts

http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/nursing/jobsearch_menu.html

http://www.jobweb.com/resumes_interviews/default.htm

http://content.monster.com/articles/3475/16536/1/industry/5/home.aspx

http://content.monster.com/articles/3475/17414/1/industry/5/home.aspx

http://www.vault.com/nr/main_article_detail.jsp?article_id=18576&cat_id=0&ht_type=9

http://content.monster.com/articles/3475/17164/1/default.aspx

http://www.worktree.com/tb/cl_more.cfm

http://www.dcardillo.com/articles.html

sample resumes:

http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/nursing/nursesamples.pdf

http://media.monster.com/mm/usen/content/pdf/resume_bsn.pdf

http://content.monster.com/articles/3476/17072/1/home.aspx

http://content.monster.com/articles/3476/17228/1/industry/5/home.aspx

http://media.monster.com/mm/usen/content/resume/resume_florencenightingale.pdf

sample cover letters:

http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/nursing/nursecovers.pdf

http://media.monster.com/mm/usen/content/pdf/college%20grad%20cover%20letter.pdf

http://www.vault.com/nr/main_article_detail.jsp?article_id=20934&cat_id=0&ht_type=9

[RNDreamer]

Wow, I need to check these links out

[Celtfire]

Thank you so much. I'm going to look these up.