Did you know that according to the last reported national average, your typical American jobhunter could easily take well over 9 months just to find a new job? Now, there’s no why that I can know your own personal situation, but I’d think it’d be safe to assume that you really don’t have that sort of time. How would you feel if I told you that there’s a way to take that time down to a sliver of what it could be?
Guess what, there is such a way…and it goes by the name of “cover letter”. Well, technically, it’s actually called a “great cover letter”. Chances are good that any job you apply for will want a resume, and even if it didn’t ask for one, why wouldn’t you add it anyways? The same applies for a cover letter, it just doesn’t make sense to leave out such an important tool for raising your chances of getting the job.
When some employer is sitting in his office trying to sift through stacks of piles of heaps of applications looking for just ONE lucky person to get the job, do you really think that guy is going to sit there and scan through each little part of every single resume? No! Nobody has that kind of patience. What the guy will do is glance through all the cover letters. It’s your first shot at moving on to the next round.
The process is easy: the resumes with cover letters that look promising will stay in the game, and the ones with the sub-par cover letters –or dare I say it: none!– will be given to Bob in Accounting to feed to his goat.
So if you plan on making it past the first round, it’s a necessity to have more than just a cover letter, but to have the best one possible! Don’t forget,,your resume is important and of course you’ll have to be qualified for the position, but a shining cover letter can do more than open the door; it can roll out the red carpet for you.
Now, this is great if you are already an expert at writing amazing cover letters…but what happens if you for some reason missed the opportunity to go to college to get a master’s degree in Cover Letter Writing? What if you’re just a guy looking for ajob? Think about it. what’s the best way to learn how to do something?
You have somebody teach you! I’m not talking about one-on-one tutoring either, you have to find a person who’s written a terrific cover letter that bagged him a good job, and read his cover letter to see how he did it. Learning by example is easy! Furthermore, why should you limit yourself to just one person? Learn from a bunch of different examples! Spend some time seeing what’s worked for other people, and work out how to best adapt the ideas to work for what you need. Now, I strongly advise against plagiarizing, but if you can see what others have done, it shouldn’t be too hard to learn how to do it yourself.
But there’s a little problem…where exactly can you find these sorts of cover letter examples? How do you distinguish between the ones that are worth looking at and the ones that are garbage?
This site has a bunch of cover letter examples that you can use to learn how to write a cover letter. The numerous resources are sure to be able to get you the information you need.
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