cover letter:
http://qz.com/234824/how-to-write-a-cover-letter-according-to-leonardo-da-vinci/
cut through the noise :
Using boilerplate(标准文本) formalities won’t make you sound serious; it will just make it harder to tell one cover letter from another
展现你的性格、幽默，即使这样透露出你对希望获得的这份工作的焦虑
Be specific about you skills
Try to show your skill in action :
(example) I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde.
Tell a story
