 Career stories! Hey there, I'm going to teach you the five steps to writing an incredible cover letter. So step one, before we even write anything down on the cover letter, take a couple minutes to think about why you want to work for this particular company and why this particular role. And just write out maybe just a list of ten reasons why you want to work for the company. Done? Okay, cool. Then after you've done that, look at your list and go what would be the most interesting reason for that company? What reason would they want to hear? So circle it, select it, and then that's going to be your opening paragraph. So instead of starting your cover letter with, hey I'm a so-and-so, you're going to start it with, hey this is why I think that your company's so great and this is why I think the role is so interesting. You make it about them, you're stroking some egos. Step three, identify what the soft and the hard skills are in the job. And that might be if you're basing it off of a job ad, then you're going to look for words, look for hard skills, look for soft skills, look for words that repeat themselves, just identify what words you want to be using that they really care about. If you're applying for a job where there is no job ad and you've been talking to someone at the company or if you are proposing a job, then you just want to think about, you know, what skills do you think from all the research you've done they're really going to care about. So identify those skills and then step four is think of a really compelling story, think of an example from your professional life that highlights most of those skills. So it can be a mix of soft and hard skills and then that's going to be your paragraph two and three. So paragraph one, you stroke your egos, paragraph two, you go I have such and such skills, story three, you go here's an example, you tell them a wonderful story. And then the last step, step five of writing incredible cover letter is to just take a moment to also go, if I got this job, how would I help this company? What would I do and what could they expect if I was the person in this role? And that's what you tell them, right? So paragraph four is if you were to hire me, I would boom, boom, boom, I would shoot this and this and this for you so they can imagine you doing the work so they know exactly the difference that you would make going to their organization. So that is the five steps to writing an incredible human voice, memorable cover letter. Thanks for watching.