Get a Better Job by Writing a Better Cover Letter

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?

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 you want to survive the first initial culling, you'll want to not only have a cover letter, you'll want to have the best one you possibly can! Your resume is important too, and of course you have to be a decent candidate for the job, but the right cover letter can not only open the door but also lay down a welcome mat.

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! 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.

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