The Canadian National Newspaper: America’s Job hunters use cover letters to cut Down Jobhunting Time

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, 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 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.

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 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! Don’t 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 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?

Well, it's to have somebody teach you! You find a person who's written a wonderful cover letter that got him a job, and find out how he did it. Learn by example! And why limit yourself to only one person? Learn from tons of examples! Look at what works, and figure out how to adjust the ideas to fit your needs. Now, I don't advocate plagiarism, but if you see what others have done, usually you can figure out how to do it yourself.

But the problem is...where exactly does one find these cover letter examples? How can you tell which ones work and which ones are worthless? This I can help with.

Check out this site to get your hands on a bunch of cover letter examples that you can use to learn how to write a cover letter. It really doesn't have to take nine months to find a new job. LINK

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