Examples
Cover letter examples that get read
Most cover letters are skimmed for about six seconds. Each of these guides shows what that particular hiring reader is looking for — with openings, a body paragraph, and a closing you can adapt.
Software Engineer
Technology
Engineering hiring managers are the most likely of any profession to skip the cover letter entirely — so the ones who do…
Registered Nurse
Healthcare
Nursing cover letters are read by nurse managers who are hiring for a specific unit with a specific acuity, and who have…
Marketing Manager
Marketing
A marketing cover letter is a writing sample whether you intend it to be or not. A hiring manager assessing whether you …
Teacher
Education
Teaching cover letters are read by principals who are choosing a colleague for their building, not just a candidate with…
Administrative Assistant
Administrative
Administrative postings draw enormous application volume, and most cover letters attached to them are interchangeable. T…
Project Manager
Business
Project management cover letters should demonstrate the thing the job requires: clear communication under constraint. A …
Customer Service Representative
Administrative
Support hiring managers are looking for two things a resume struggles to show: how you handle someone who is genuinely a…
Accountant
Finance
Accounting cover letters are read by controllers who want to know three things quickly: your CPA status, the size of the…
Sales Representative
Sales
A sales cover letter is a sales call in writing, and hiring managers read it exactly that way. If you cannot open with s…
Graphic Designer
Creative
Design cover letters are competing with the portfolio for the reviewer's attention, and they will lose. So the letter sh…
Data Analyst
Technology
Analyst cover letters should demonstrate the thing analysts are hired for: turning a finding into a recommendation someo…
Career Change
Entry-Level
For a career change, the cover letter is not optional — it is the most important document in the application. The resume…
Recent Graduate
Entry-Level
For a new graduate, the cover letter carries more weight than at any later career stage, because everyone in the applica…
Product Manager
Technology
A product management cover letter is an opportunity to demonstrate product thinking directly. The strongest ones contain…
Operations Manager
Business
Operations cover letters should read like an operator wrote them: specific, numerate, and free of abstraction. A hiring …
HR Manager
Business
HR cover letters are read for judgement, because the role is largely a judgement job. What an executive wants to know is…
Financial Analyst
Finance
FP&A cover letters should demonstrate the analyst's core value: turning numbers into a decision someone acted on. A lett…
Mechanical Engineer
Engineering
Engineering cover letters work best when they are concrete about products that shipped. Design work that stopped at revi…
Retail Manager
Retail
Retail management cover letters should read like a P&L conversation. District managers evaluate store volume, comps, shr…
Military to Civilian
Entry-Level
For a transitioning service member, the cover letter does something the resume cannot: it explains the translation. A ci…
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