The cover letter is more important than ever. In a world where AI can polish grammar and formatting, I use the cover letter ...

“Thanks for helping me customize my resume,” my friend said cheerily. “Now I just have to find the cover letter I used for my last job application and spruce it up a little.” “Nooooooo ...

Don’t treat it as a formality. The cover letter is your first opportunity to make a good impression and your only opportunity to include information not covered by the forms or your resume.

Job search expert and former HR executive Lynda Spiegel explains why cover letters don’t affect a recruiter’s decision to interview a candidate.

First and foremost, follow any guidelines that the job ad gives about your application documents, both in terms of length and content.

Shoshana Davis, founder of career consultancy Fairy Job Mother, has observed a surge in identical cover letters and job application responses, indicating the misuse of AI tools.

Here's how to write a cover letter using ChatGPT that doesn't sound generic or AI-generated including the exact prompts you can copy and paste.

Writing cover letters can be tedious, and so some people are outsourcing them to the AI chatbot ChatGPT.