While scrolling through LinkedIn recently, I came across a headline, “Recruiter shreds cover letters.” When I clicked on the headline, I found this post by recruiter Nicole Fernandez-Valle of ...

A compelling cover letter is a crucial step in the job application process. It serves as your first impression and a key opportunity to showcase your skills, experience, and enthusiasm for the role.

In recent years, there has been more and more speculation about how cover letters are becoming irrelevant and are soon to be obsolete. Don’t believe it. Maybe this will one day be the case, but ...

When you write a strong cover letter, you’re showing your future employer that you’re the person they’re looking for. What are the key elements of a compelling cover letter?

It’s Tip No. 1 for cover letters: Address it to the hiring manager. Careerealism’s Ariella Coombs says you can take the direct approach and call the company if you don’t know the name.

A hiring manager today probably won’t have time to go through a cover letter that reads like a life story. That’s why the modern-day cover letter needs to be concise and snappy.

Anyone who's ever applied for a job knows how stressful it can be. And for some, the hardest part is the cover letter. It should be professional, but make you stand out. It should be short, but ...

If you think of your résumé as a map to a new city that the hiring manager has not visited before, the cover letter would be the guidebook. It will not cover everything on the map, but it will ...

Most recruiters just skim cover letters, so here’s how to craft a short and effective one that can be read in 60 seconds or less. Cover letters are dead, or so we’ve been told. Many recruiters ...