Cover Letter Generator

In short A cover letter earns its place by connecting your experience to this specific job, which is exactly what a CV cannot do. The structure that works is short: why this company and this role, in a way that could not be copied to another application; two or three concrete pieces of your experience that map onto their stated requirements; and a closing that says what you want to happen next. Three paragraphs is usually enough and half a page is plenty. What fails is restating the CV in prose, which gives a reader nothing new, and opening with "I am writing to apply for the position of", which spends the strongest line in the letter on information already in the subject. Read the job advert for the requirements they list first and second, and address those explicitly — the ordering is rarely accidental. And the most common own goal is worth naming: the wrong company name from a previous application. Check it, every time, because it ends the application on its own.