One of the best reads I’ve come across in a while - probably because I’m closing in on graduation and I hate my life right now.  Click the link and read the whole article.  You’ll find little goodies like how to write a crappy cover letter that won’t get you an interview and an even crappier one that might.

Here’s an excerpt:

I eventually found myself sitting across from a pretty HR rep with frosted curly hair and long acrylic nails. We talked mostly about customer service — what it meant, how I’d provide it, why it was important at Macy’s — and I told her I got it. I knew how to shop and I knew how to sell; this is how I’d sell that suit or this is how I’d push the warranty on a flat-screen TV. Customer service is everything, I told her, and she smiled and nodded. I was on. She said she’d pass my résumé along to the department heads, and if there was any interest, one of them would be in touch directly. Later that day I bragged to my wife that I’d nailed my Macy’s interview, that I had this woman eating out of the palm of my hand. It never occurred to me — not until recently, anyway, when I realized Macy’s would never call me — that maybe she felt sorry for me. That all her smiling and nodding was a simple act of human kindness, of pity, for a loudmouth with no sales experience. Interviews can be funny that way: You can walk away knowing less about the job and more about yourself than you’d like to admit.

Shamefully, right on.