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PART ONE:
Create a Letter of Introduction
Your letter of Introduction should be about 2 pararaphs long and
these 2 paragraphs should take up no more than 1/3rd of your 1 page
Letter of Introduction.
The top of your Letter of Introduction should have a standard
business style header which includes:
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Your Name in Bold Centered
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Your Street Address Centered
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Your City, State & Zip Centered
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Your Phone number(s) Centered
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Your Web Presence and/or e-mail address Centered
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1 to 2 lines of white space
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The Date Left Justified, Use the Date Function in Word
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The Name of the person, position or department the letter is for, Left Justified
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The name of the Company, Left Justified
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The Company Street Address, Left Justified
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The Company City, State and Zip, Left Justified
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1 line of White Space
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An appropriate salutation, such as "Dear"
The bottom of your letter you should have the word "Sincerely",
about 5 lines of White Space (where you will either sign the letter
or insert an electronic signature image), followed by your name.
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PART TWO:
You will identify 20 businesses that are either looking for someone
with your current skills or someone with the skills you expect to
have upon graduation.
You will create a list of these companies, Use the table function in your
word processor that includes the following
information for each company:
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The Name of person at this company who has the authority to hire
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The name of a Position that you are looking to get
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The Name of the Company
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The Street Address of the company
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The City the company is in
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The State the company is in
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The zip code of the company
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PART THREE:
Perform a Mail Merge
Use your Cover Letter as your target document and let Your word
processor auto load the specific company information into the
variables you have created for it in your source document. To
do this you will have to:
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Create variables in your source document for each field
you collect for your 20 target companies
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Run Mailmerge
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Verify the output is what you want
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