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LETTER 5-24: ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT—WORKFORCE RETURN—CAREER CHANGE
Ms. Lucille Lockhart
Vice President, Human Resources
CompuTech Industries
47 Pratt Street
Hartford, CT 09876
RE: Your ad in the Hartford Courant, Sunday, May 8, 20XX for an
Assistant to the President
Dear Ms. Lockhart:
Impeccable interpersonal skills. Organizational and supervisory abilities.
Attention to detail. Your ad describes my strengths precisely!
People Power: As a teacher in the public school system for three
years, I am adept at dealing with people—from “by the book” career
administrators to the high school bully, from irate parents to the shy
underachiever, from goal-oriented department heads to aggressive
textbook sales representatives.
Management Skills: As a homemaker raising two children, I
mastered the ability to spearhead three projects simultaneously while
supervising two distinct groups of youngsters, maintaining my
patience and my good temper all the while.

Accuracy: As a volunteer for a local hospital, I coordinated the ever-
changing schedules of 50 unpaid workers for five years with nary a
“foul-up.”
Handling these responsibilities provided me with a different kind of
experience: the kind the corporate world just doesn’t offer—and the kind
that proves invaluable once you enter this world, as I’d like to do now.
I hope you’ll consider me a serious candidate for the position of Assistant
to the President. I certainly would take the job very seriously, proving an
asset to the President and to the company.
Sincerely,

Frances Dougherty
Home Phone: (555) 765-4321

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