A cover letter worth the reader's minute
Most cover letters repeat the resume in longer sentences, which is why most go unread. This one asks you four questions instead, and lays the answers out on an A4 page styled to match the resume template you are already using.
Your details
The application
The letter
Sending it in the body of an email? Use the copy button — an attachment that duplicates the email body is one more click between you and being read.
13 November 2026
Dear Hiring Manager,
Fill in the four paragraphs on the left and the letter appears here.
Sincerely,
Your name
What makes a cover letter get read
The reader already has your resume. If your letter restates it, they stop after two lines — not out of rudeness, but because they have learned that nothing new is coming. Everything below follows from that one fact.
Answer something the posting asked
Job descriptions almost always contain one requirement that is oddly specific — a tool, a kind of stakeholder, a regulatory context. Address that one directly and you have proved you read the posting, which most applicants demonstrably did not.
Tell one story, not five
The letter's advantage over the resume is room. Take a single result and give it the context a bullet point could not hold: what was broken, what you tried, what happened. One story told properly beats a list of five compressed ones.
Keep it under a page
Four short paragraphs. If it runs past one page you have started restating the resume — the extra material is almost always the part to cut.
Address a person if you can find one
"Dear Hiring Manager" is fine and nobody is offended by it. A name is better, and thirty seconds on LinkedIn usually finds one. If you cannot find it with confidence, do not guess — an incorrect name is worse than a generic greeting.
Do I need a cover letter at all?
When the application form has an optional box, most people leave it empty — so filling it well is cheap differentiation. When it is required, it is often read before the resume. When there is no field for one, do not attach it to an email that nobody asked for.
Can I reuse one letter for every application?
The contact block and structure, yes. The middle two paragraphs, no — those are the entire point, and a reused one is obvious from the first sentence.
Should the design match my resume?
Yes, and it does here automatically — the preview uses whichever of the 20 templates you have selected, so the two documents arrive looking like a set.
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