Fast and Easy Cover Letters

The importance of having a great resume cover letter has been well documented, and all recruiters agree that without a cover letter, resumes will often not get opened.

Possibly one of the first people to really recognize how resume cover letters can be used to great effect is Jimmy Sweeney, the President of CareerJimmy. Through this online job searching business, Jimmy has contact with people seeking jobs, recruitment firms looking for clients, manpower managers from small businesses to large corporations. He knows his stuff.

Jimmy has worked long and hard to uncover the secrets to getting a job. One of them is the great cover letter, which can mean the difference between someone reading your resume as soon as they get it, or adding it to the pile of 'others'. If you can get your prospective employer to notice you, at the time of application, you are half-way to an interview.

Some people wait months to hear back from job applications, if in fact they ever do, to hear that you have actually got an interview - well, that is priceless.

With his "Amazing Cover Letter Creator" Jimmy Sweeney has covered all the bases to ensure that your cover letter is powerful and effective. Getting your foot in the door is the hardest part of the whole employment process, once in the interview you really have the best opportunity to impress your future employer.

Using one of Jimmy's brilliantly worded cover letter templates will ensure you stand out from the crowd, and let's face it, that's exactly what you have to do in these times of high unemployment. Even if you have an outstanding resume, if your cover letter doesn't impress, the reader may not even open your resume!

It is not good enough to just slap together a traditional cover letter, like so many of your rivals for the job will do. The recruiter will see this as B-O-R-I-N-G. They won't rate a second glance, some are even ignored completely.

Your resume needs to have attention getting elements, without being unprofessional. Some highlighted in Jimmy Sweeney's Amazing Cover Letter Creator are:

•  have an impressive 'headline' below your greeting. Most applications will have something along the lines of "APPLICATION FOR POSITION XYZ'. The heading "PROVEN SKILLS ARE A PERFECT FIT" might attract a little more interest perhaps?

• include a P.S. after your signature. Marketers have known the effectiveness of the P.S. for decades, and it works with cover letters too, for instance "P.S. I would love the opportunity to discuss my skills and qualifications in a face to face interview and can be contacted on 555 5555 5555"

Before you send off your next job application, take a critical look at your cover letter and consult Jimmy for some expert help.