Your No. 1 priority in a job search is to make you stand out among the sea of applicants. Start by personalizing your cover letter for the position.

Somebody hiring you for a job will skim your resume, or may use an applicant tracking system to review it, but they will read your cover letter if considering you for a position. Resumes are a ...

Admin 101: How to Interpret a Job Candidate’s Cover Letter As a hiring administrator, your goal is to efficiently, presciently, and justly read applicants’ cover letters.

While it is true that only half of hiring managers actually read cover letters, we are playing to that 50% of your audience who look at the letter for additional information on the value of your ...

For a Ph.D., writing cover letters for nonacademic jobs — letters that explain how your skills and experience make you a good fit — can be difficult and frustrating. That isn’t because Ph.D ...

Your newfound cover letter knowledge will be an important resource in your lifetime career journey. The need to write about your relevant professional story could come up at any time for a part-time ...

Whether your time off has been because of a layoff, job termination, illness, care of sick relatives, child care, a sabbatical or any other reason, the purpose of a cover letter -- to generate a ...

If a prospective employer says a cover letter is 'optional,' should I still send one? Published: ; Apr. 27, 2018, 4:00 p.m.

For four generations, job-seekers were told that a cover letter was a necessary part of the application process. In the 1930s, cover letters were used to explain the denser contents of mailed ...