In today's competitive environment when it comes to finding a good job, you need all the advantages you can get. One of the main items every job seeker should have is a killer cover letter, along with a polished resume. Your letter is the only chance you have to "sell" yourself, to get that all important interview.

Remember, most good jobs will generate anywhere from 50 to 250 resumes. Try putting yourself in the shoes of a person who has to narrow down that huge stack of resumes into a small but manageable number. Some of your competition may throw in a canned cover letter with little thought behind it. And some of your competition will not include a letter at all. What you need, is to submit a brilliantly crafted cover letter with your resume. One that opens the eyes of the hiring Manager.

Now, back to the process of narrowing down this huge stack of resumes; the first to go are resumes without a cover letter. Second to get trashed are resumes with a simple or poorly written cover letter.

With that the huge resume stack now chopped down to manageable level. The first item a hiring manager will look at is who is best qualified and who is best selling themselves for the position. That's the stack where you want to be, the cream of the applicants. This is where your brilliantly crafted killer cover letter starts working for you in getting that all important interview.

Remember, a "simple" or "typical" letter attached to your resume can kill your hopes of a job interview. Your job search is like a marketing campaign, with the goal of getting that all important interview. I once had a teacher tell me "your cover letter is the salesperson and the resume is the data backing up the salesperson."

So when crafting a killer letter, write it as a selling tool. A personalize selling tool that highlights your benefits to the company. Write it as "the benefits that I can bring to your company and this position". But also don't write it with your ego in the way. You don't want to sound too egotistic in your letter.

Once the hiring Manager sees the benefits you offer, over your competition by way of your killer letter, you'll be assured of getting that all important personal interview.

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