I’ve been helping someone with his cover letter for a while now. It’s been an arduous process. Writing cover letters can be difficult. However, today I came to a realization: writing a cover letter isn’t supposed to be hard.
A cover letter is nothing more than a way to sell yourself to your potential employer. Why should this be difficult? After all, if you’re applying for a job, you obviously think you can do it. There must be something that you possess that brought you to think that you can do the job. Whether it be a skill, a quality, a trait, anything. You know better than anyone what you’re capable of. You know better than anyone why you think you can do the job. If you can explain that in your cover letter, you’re good to go. I mean, if you can’t explain why you think you can do the job in a cover letter… how do you expect to explain it in an interview? On the other hand, if you don’t think you can do the job, don’t bother applying. If you’re not convinced that you can do the job, how are you going to convince your employer?
Hope that helps.
*UPDATE*
Just found a cover letter done by somebody for a job at Penny Arcade. Chances are you’re not gonna do anything like this but still fun to look at.