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Technique #9

For a wildly successful job search use these TWO ‘not-so-famous’ cover letters!

If landing the IT job of your dreams were as easy as posting your resume online with one of those massive job sites everyone would be happily employed.

Just imagine, you kick up your feet, take a drink from your tall glass of lemonade, wait 10 days and WHAMO!… You comb through dozens of job offers sent to you from all over the globe!

Welcome to “Job-Search Fantasy Island.”

The smart job-hunter uses every strategy available to expand his or her ‘job reach’ as efficiently and effectively as possible. If you want the job you’ll need to go to work!

Today I’m going to reveal the power of using two ‘not-so-famous’ cover letters that will add a couple of legs to your job search, giving you the reach of a multi-tasking octopus!

#1: Powerful Networking with a Networking Cover Letter

The networking cover letter is a powerful way to reach friends and professional contacts asking for employment leads, referrals, advice, and introductions. You are not asking for a job but rather their assistance in connecting you with people and opportunities.

A networking cover letter is the ‘vehicle’ you can use to open up a new world of opportunity by tapping into other peoples’ contacts, connections, and knowledge.

Tap into your network immediately and produce quality job leads for yourself right away. Create your own list from these available sources: friends, friends of friends, family, current and former coworkers, members of professional organizations, your spouse, and everyone in between. Use your imagination to develop a master networking list of contacts to whom you can email and ‘snail mail’ your networking cover letter.

Networking letters should be friendly and professional. You can find and model templates online.

Networking Cover Letter Tips: Keep your letter brief and summarize your strengths in the middle of the letter using numbered lists or bullet points. Make sure to clearly ASK for job leads and referrals. In most cases I suggest you attach your resume, as well. Don’t be afraid to make a few phone calls to key contacts as part of your overall networking strategy. Always remember to say thank you and to follow up on a regular basis.

Networking is one of the golden strategies of a successful job search and a networking cover letter can greatly expand your reach in any career field.

Remember, if one contact can’t help you out, make sure to ask them if they can refer you to another one of THEIR contacts who can!

#2: The All-In-One Resume Cover Letter

Here’s an effective letter that every job-seeker should keep in his or her ‘toolbox.’ This special letter has the personal feel of a cover letter but also doubles as a resume.

The resume cover letter is perfect for networking and also makes a terrific follow-up letter. It is brief by design, and therefore can be used successfully when working with recruiters, headhunters, and agencies where brevity is so important. It allows the reader to scan one document quickly as opposed to reading the traditional two-piece job application containing both the cover letter and resume.

Creating your own resume cover letter is easy: you are condensing and combining the key elements of your cover letter and resume to create one document called the ‘resume cover letter.’ I recommend the use of bullet points to list the highlights of your resume while staying with the format of a cover letter throughout.

I also recommend keeping your networking cover letter to one page in length, two pages absolute maximum. Otherwise you are defeating the purpose of using this type of letter.

Use a resume cover letter anytime you’d like to keep your communications brief, but want to display the highlights of your resume, as well.

Final thought: I believe networking alone can provide YOU the strongest chance for landing a job you love. Tap into YOUR network today!

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Technique 2# -- To whom it may NOT concern…

Technique 3# -- Keep it ‘short and sweet’ or kiss your chances goodbye.

Technique 4# -- Big Word WARNING… No one talks like that!

Technique 5# -- Want More Quality Job Interviews?… ASK and you shall receive!

Technique 6# -- FIVE Surefire Ways To Effectively ASK For The Job Interview!

Technique 7# -- How to mathematically DOUBLE your job search odds!

Technique 8# -- How to shoot straight to the top of the must hire list using a powerful, ‘post-interview’ cover letter!

Technique 9# -- For a wildly successful job search use these TWO ‘not-so-famous’ cover letters!

Technique 10# -- The Greatest Cover Letter Secret Ever Revealed!