Preparing Your Cover Letter Where are the jobs? Even though you may not be in the market at the moment, become familiar with the kinds of available positions because job awareness should be an important part of your education. To start preparing your cover letter: Clip or print a job advertisement or announcement from (a) the classified section of a newspaper, (b) a job board on the Web, (c) a company website, or (d) a professional association listing. Select an advertisement or announcement describing the kind of employment you are seeking now or plan to seek when you graduate. Save this advertisement or announcement to attach to the rsum you will write in Activity 15.9. Your Task Using the job listing you found in the steps above, write a cover letter introducing your rsum. Decide whether it should be a letter or an e-mail. Again, revise until it is perfect.