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.

Cover letters are important when applying for a job since they show an employer a deeper view of your initiative and highlight your qualifications beyond what is already on your resume, says Indeed.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...