While beginning your career on oDesk , you better understand the influence and importance of cover letter, it plays a vital role for you on oDesk as well as on Elance and other freelancing platforms. It is the thing which lays an impression of you in front of client indirectly. You always need to make efforts and keep updating it for each sort of Job.
Here I list few mistakes which are commonly made by freelancers:
1. Less Attention to Job
Most contractors on Odesk/ Elance do a common mistake while bidding over the job, they didn’t read the job posting carefully and most of them use a copied cover letter for every job post , they even didn’t read carefully the job requirement. Always go through the job requirement if you want to increase your hiring, mention something relevant to the job and your intention about the job.
2. Spelling Mistakes
It’s the things which can spoil your maximum chances for getting considered by the client, so be careful while posting the cover letter; make use of spell-checker to proof your writing if you don’t know English well. Nowadays, many online spell-checkers are available i.e. Ginger software, Thesaurus, Grammerly check etc. Misspellings and bad grammar harm your professionalism so be careful.
3. Underestimation of Cover Letter
Cover letter is the main weapon of freelancers while interacting with the client regarding the job posted. It is the way to let the client know about your willingness for the job and what techniques or things you going to use for the completion of the task assigning by them. Clients don’t have too much time to go through every cover letter so keep your cover letter descriptive to the point, don’t share irrelevant details. Don’t make it very big neither too short one liner or two liners.
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