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.

At best, a generic cover letter is boring or a little awkward. At worst, it can be unprofessional if what you wrote about has nothing to do with the job you're applying for.

If I change nothing else in my cover letter, I'm certainly going to fix that. The cover letter was also too long for my liking, so you could either give ChatGPT a word limit or ask it to remove ...

Luckily, cover letters have a relatively easy format, according to Joseph Liu, host of the Career Relaunch podcast – an international career advice podcast that’s based in London.

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

Are you guilty of the dreaded copy and paste job application? You know, where you take the same exact cover letter and send it off to multiple employers, regardless of ...

Applying for a job is arduous and time consuming, and it's tempting to use the fast apply button and attach a generic cover letter to every application -- but that's not going to get you hired in ...

A separate ResumeGo experiment found that, of 7,287 fictitious job applications between July 15, 2019, and Jan. 10, 2020, those that included cover letters tailored specifically to the job had a ...

If that seems like obvious advice, you might be surprised how often job candidates submit generic cover letters. For a part-time position that one of us recently posted, 94 candidates applied but ...