Harold, a bank relationship manager, needed a cover letter that focused on his outstanding customer service skills, high client retention rate, and impressive revenue growth.We used a quote from a ...

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 ...

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.

Do you support the same or similar organizations and causes? After reading your cover letter [the hiring manager] should appreciate that you are a candidate who genuinely wants to work with them ...