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Using Cover Letter Examples to Get a Better Job
By: Erik J. Michaels
Did you know that by national average, your typical American could easily take 9 months to find a new job? I don't know about you, but most of us just can't afford to wait that long. What if there was a way to "magically" cut that jobhunting time down into ribbons?
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 a potential employer is trying to sort through literally hundreds of applications looking for ONE person to take the position, do you really think the poor guy is going to sit there and scan through every minute detail in every single resume?
No! There's not a fellow in the world who has that sort of time. What that employer will do is look at all the cover letters. It's the first thing he'll read, and it's your first chance to avoid elimination.
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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 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! 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? I happen to know of a place where you can get what you need.
