{"id":79,"date":"2010-07-21T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterindia.com\/career-advice\/customize-your-cover-letter-to-the-ad-79\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:52:11","slug":"customize-your-cover-letter-to-the-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/customize-your-cover-letter-to-the-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Customize Your Cover Letter to the Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found the perfect job through an ad? Before you whisk off your resume and cover letter, study the ad and determine how your qualifications match the employer&rsquo;s requirements. Armed with this information, you can craft a cover letter positioning yourself as the ideal candidate.<p><span>Read Also :<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/what-is-a-cv\/\"><span> what is a cv?<\/span><\/a><\/p><p>For example, look at this sample job ad:<br>\n______________________<\/p><p><strong>Outside Sales Rep<\/strong><\/p><p>Our client, a fast-growing, Staten Island, NY-based software company has an opening for an outside sales professional.<\/p><p><strong>Requirements:<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>A minimum of 3 years&rsquo; outside business-to-business experience selling enterprise software<\/li>\n<li>The ability to develop a list of prospects, build a pipeline of opportunities and close business<\/li>\n<li>A proven background working within a quota and exceeding sales targets<\/li>\n<li>Ability to demonstrate software and manage a complex sales cycle<\/li>\n<li>Strong verbal and written communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Availability to travel at least 50%<\/li>\n<li>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree preferred<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><span>Read Also :<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/what-is-resume\/\"><span> What is a Resume?<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><strong>Compensation:<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>Competitive base salary plus commission and company car.<\/li>\n<li>Average first year income $85K+.<\/li>\n<li>Full benefits<\/li>\n<li>Quarterly sales contests<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>If you are a true sales hunter and an energetic self-starter with the desire to be part of a fast-growing software firm, submit your resume and cover letter to Brandon Marks at BMarks@somedomain.com. Reference #28903888.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found the perfect job through an ad? Before you whisk off your resume and cover letter, study the ad and determine how your qualifications match the employer&rsquo;s requirements. Armed with this information, you can craft a cover letter positioning yourself as the ideal candidate.Read Also : what is a cv?For example, look at this sample &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/customize-your-cover-letter-to-the-ad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Customize Your Cover Letter to the Ad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resume-cover-letters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55352,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/55352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster.co.th\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}