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How to compose a non-addressed Cover Letter

  • 26-11-2012 5:04pm
    #1
    confuseddotcom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭


    How does one write a Cover Letter to no-one in particular?!? Have been refused the Company's details and name etc., so what exactly do I put at the top of the Letter? I've no-one to address it to. How do I start it off? Just my own address is it?


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  • #2
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,638 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    confuseddotcom wrote: »
    How does one write a Cover Letter to no-one in particular?!? Have been refused the Company's details and name etc., so what exactly do I put at the top of the Letter? I've no-one to address it to. How do I start it off? Just my own address is it?

    Speculative or formal one? More effective if you have a contact but I'm sure you realise that. Something like HR Manager and address/name of the company. No other way of finding the info/name you need?


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Dear Madam/Sir

    To Whom It May Concern


  • #4
    confuseddotcom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭confuseddotcom


    What do you mean by speculative? I would consider any Business Letter a formal template of-sorts? Sorry may have phrased it wrong I'm not even necessarily looking for a specific name, I don't even have the Company's Name lol or address! Nope not a clue, don't even have any idea what kind of Business/Service the Company sell/provide/offer. They're not "bound to disclose their name" or some such rubbish! :rolleyes: Well actually they deal with Customers that's all I know! So no, no name, no address, no nothing, the top third of the Letter is going to be blank! Great! :D :rolleyes: I'm starting to get really really sick of this Country and it's half-hearted "half-ar$ed-ness!" :rolleyes::(

    Yeah that will obv. have to suffice biko but like I mean it's not anyways near acceptable not to know what I'm applying for, but shure I suppose I'm in Ireland...... :D :rolleyes: Gotta have a sense of humour at times or else would just spontaneously combust! :D:/


  • #5
    Maglight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Maglight


    So I'm guessing you are applying for a job where the company has opted to keep their name confidential. The usual reason for this is that the company doesn't want it generally known that they are hiring. They may be going through a restructuring or redundancy process in a different part of the company. You don't know the circumstances, so just go with it.

    In that case, you start the letter with 'To whom it may concern' rather than the standard Dear xxx. In the letter refer your experience to the job spec and tell them why you are good and they should interview you.

    If on the other hand it's a job through a recruitment agency, and the recruitment consultant won't tell you the company name, tell them where they can place the vacancy....


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