Sarah's cover letter template.txt

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Dear Hiring Manager,

I would like to express my interest in the {{position}} position posted in the career section of your site.  I have enclosed my resume detailing my unique skill set for you.

I recently graduated from the User Experience Design Immersive program at General Assembly where I improved my skills in most every facet of user experience design. I esspecially excelled at 
{{user research methods,
 prototyping,
 wireframing,
 user flows,
 and interaction design}}
. Plus, I hold a BFA in Digital Art from the University of Washington. I have an insatiable passion for designing great digital products and to cultivate myself at {{company}} in a design capacity would be a dream for me.

As a design consultant for Centro Community Partners, I was given the opportunity to use my skills in interaction design and product development to lay plans for a mobile application for business consultants. I developed {{features, user research, personas, site map, wireframes ,user flows, and many iterations of an interactive prototype}}. I have gained familiarity with the diverse goals of stakeholders and users. I am extremely passionate about working as part of a design team, and look forward to working closely with other passionate individuals as I continue to grow my skill set.

I feel that my 
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rapid iteration,
collaboration skills,
Working with clients and teams,
Client facing presentations,
Pair design and collaboration,
Strategy,
feature prioritization,
concepting,
project management,
Prototyping (low and high fidelity) with Axure Invision,
and Flinto,
User flows,
scenarios,
personas,
user journeys,
User research and interviews,
usability testing,
Front End: HTML5,
CSS3,
JS,
JQuery,
Front End Frameworks,
Git,
Additional Software: Adobe Photoshop,
Illustrator,
Sketch,
After Effects,
Omnigraffle
}}
skills would make an excellent addition.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you,
Sarah Arnegard

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My strengths include the ability to learn quickly, teamwork, listening and observation,  as well as ability to prioritize while maintaining close attention to detail. [[Put how you exemplify these things in your top paragraph(s) instead of listing.]]

to your team. Please feel free to contact me at any time for an interview.