What Is a Cover Letter? A cover letter is your chance to communicate what makes you, you. It is additive, though not consistently required, as part of your application package to an internship or a ...

Learn how to write a cover letter that leaves a great impression — and makes a potential employer want to know more about you.

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 ...

Over the course of my career, I’ve read probably tens of thousands of cover letters. (And yes, that’s as boring as it sounds.

Because no cover letter can convey all this information appropriately in only two pages, you will need to tailor your letter depending on the department, the university, the requirements specified in ...