| Did you know that by national average, your typical | | | | --or worse, NONE at all!-- will be kept "on file." |
| American could easily take 9 months to find a new | | | | Translation: paper shredder. |
| job? I don't know about you, but most of us just can't | | | | So if you want to survive the first initial culling, you'll |
| afford to wait that long. What if there was a way to | | | | want to not only have a cover letter, you'll want to |
| "magically" cut that jobhunting time down into ribbons? | | | | have the best one you possibly can! Your resume is |
| Well, there is...and it's called a cover letter. Well, I guess | | | | important too, and of course you have to be a decent |
| that's not entirely accurate...it's called a good cover | | | | candidate for the job, but the right cover letter can not |
| letter. Most job applications require a resume, and why | | | | only open the door but also lay down a welcome mat. |
| would you ever turn in an application without a | | | | But all of this is well and good if you know how to |
| resume? Well, the same goes for a cover letter...why | | | | write a killer cover letter...but what if you didn't go to |
| would you ever turn in a resume without a cover | | | | college for four years to get a degree in Cover Letter |
| letter? | | | | Writing? What if you're just that guy out there who's |
| When a corporate paperpusher is trying to sift through | | | | looking for a job? Well, ask yourself...what's the best |
| hundreds of job applications in the pursuit of finding | | | | way to learn how to do something? |
| ONE person to fill the slot, do you really think he or she | | | | You have somebody teach you! You find somebody |
| is going to sit there and read through every single | | | | who's written a great cover letter in his life, and see |
| resume, check every single source, and give every | | | | what he did. You learn by example. And why just one |
| single applicant the same chance? No! Nobody in the | | | | person? Learn from dozens of examples...see what |
| world has time to do that. What that person is going to | | | | works, and learn how to adapt it to your own personal |
| do is look at all the cover letters. It's the first thing they'll | | | | needs. By no means am I telling you to plagiarize or rip |
| read, and it's your first elimination to get through. | | | | off of other people, but by seeing what others have |
| The process is simple: the resumes with good cover | | | | done you can see how you can do it as well. |
| letters stay, and the ones with the poor cover letters | | | | |