Use your cover letter to tell the hiring manager about the value you can bring to alleviate the organization’s pain points, advance its strategic priorities, increase performance outcomes and ...

It’s Tip No. 1 for cover letters: Address it to the hiring manager. Careerealism’s Ariella Coombs says you can take the direct approach and call the company if you don’t know the name.

If you think of your résumé as a map to a new city that the hiring manager has not visited before, the cover letter would be the guidebook. It will not cover everything on the map, but it will ...

Most recruiters just skim cover letters, so here’s how to craft a ... only do these openers waste precious space (and the hiring manager’s time), they instantly make candidates blend into ...

I’ve read a lot of cover letters throughout my career. When I was a fellowship program manager, I reviewed them in consideration for more than 60 open positions each year. So I saw it all–the ...