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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, there is...and it's called a cover letter. Well, I guess that's not entirely accurate...it's called a good cover letter. Most job applications require a resume, and why would you ever turn in an application without a resume? Well, the same goes for a cover letter...why would you ever turn in a resume without a cover letter? When a corporate paperpusher is trying to sift through hundreds of job applications in the pursuit of finding ONE person to fill the slot, do you really think he or she is going to sit there and read through every single resume, check every single source, and give every single applicant the same chance? No! Nobody in the world has time to do that. What that person is going to do is look at all the cover letters. It's the first thing they'll read, and it's your first elimination to get through. It's a simple process: the resumes with great cover letters move on to the next round, and the ones with the so=so cover letters --or Heaven forbid, none!-- will be tossed into the "Kindling" stack. 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. But all of this is well and good if you know how to write a killer cover letter...but what if you didn't go to college for four years to get a degree in Cover Letter Writing? What if you're just that guy out there who's looking for a job? Well, ask yourself...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.
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