Knock Out the Competition With Cover Letter Examples

By: Erik J. Michaels...

There are well over 300 million people in the USA today. Looking for a job as one of them can prove to be no easy chore...in fact, according to national statistics, you could be at it for nine months or more! Chances are good that you're going to need a serious edge over the competition if you want to get a good job.

Such an edge does exist. It's not a sure-fire employer snare, but it can drastically raise your chances of getting a better job and cut down your time spent out of work. It's all about the cover letter.

I've told people before that to turn a resume in that doesn't have a cover letter would be like showing up buck-naked to a serious interview. As you can imagine...you wouldn't likely do too well in that situation. It'd be much better to show up in a gorgeous Armani suit, would it not? That would create a great first impression, showing your businesslike side and making the employer think of what a profitable relationship they could have with the hardworking, responsible person you are. Armani, thy name is "Cover Letter."

The cover letter is always the first round of elimination. The more impressive your cover letter, the better you start out. It's the first line of culling, and it separates the Armani suits from the nudists. If you have a great cover letter, you can stay in the running, while the folks with the poor ones or none at all will go back to the beach empty handed.

So what do you do to improve your cover letter? Why don't you try looking at some example cover letters that have worked for other people? It'd be a bad idea to copy someone else's letter, but learning from examples and utilizing someone else's technique is pure genius. Ask yourself a variety of questions as you read the examples, such as why this worked for them and what makes it different from yours.

This will not only enhance your skill at writing successful cover letters, but also a bunch of analysis skills that generally prove invaluable in the workplace and will raise your value in the eyes of employers. Job stability is very dependant on how valuable you are to the company, so naturally this is a good thing.

But I feel I must stress to you one thing right now. A great cover letter has two things required of it that it simply MUST do in order to really be a success. First, it has to present your qualifications. That goes hand in hand with a resume, to which a cover letter is attached anyways. That's kinda common sense, and not too difficult to understand.

However, you must remember that the highest priority of your cover letter is to promote and/or request an interview with the potential employer. If your cover letter doesn't do this, rewrite it. Never forget that making perhaps the single most important part of applying for a job is getting the jump from "the next piece of paper in the large stack" to "person sitting in my office" in the minds of your potential employers. You are no longer just another application, and instead become a serious potential employee...that's when the cover letter can be considered a success.

To get started, you can get some free cover letter examples on this site. There you'll find all you need to learn how to write a cover letter. thus armed with that knowledge, you can get a job faster.

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