Cut Down Jobhunting Time With Cover Letter Examples
by Erik J. Michaels
Did you know that according to national statistics, average American jobhunter could easily take over 9 months to find a new job? Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm betting you don't have the luxury of waiting that long. What would you say if I told you there was a way to cut that time to shreds?
Well, it just so happens that there is...and it's called a cover letter. Well, if you want to get really accurate, it's called a great cover letter. Most job applications are going to require that you submit a resume, and really what would ever possess you to turn in an application without one? Well, the same goes for a cover letter...what would ever make you want to turn in a resume without a cover letter?
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 simple: the resumes with good cover letters stay, and the ones with the poor cover letters --or worse, NONE at all!-- will be kept "on file." Translation: paper shredder.
So if your goal is to manage to survive the original culling, you'll need to have not only just a cover letter, but the best one you can possibly come up with! Dont get me wrong, your resume is important and naturally you're going to have to be an appropriate candidate, but the perfect cover letter can not just open the door but set out a velvet welcome mat as well.
But this is all wonderful if you somehow already know how to write an amazing cover letter...but what if you didn't quite find the time to go to college to get a four-year degree in Cover Letter Writing? What if you're just the average guy out there who needs a job badly? Well, ask yourself a question: what's the best way to learn how to do something?
You have somebody teach you! You find somebody who's written a great cover letter in his life, and see what he did. You learn by example. And why just one person? Learn from dozens of examples...see what works, and learn how to adapt it to your own personal needs. By no means am I telling you to plagiarize or rip off of other people, but by seeing what others have done you can see how you can do it as well.
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? I happen to know of a place where you can get what you need.
Visit this site to get your hands on a bunch of cover letter examples that you can use to learn how to write a cover letter. It really doesn't have to take nine months to get a new job. You are welcome to reprint this article - but get your own unique content version here.
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