When a friend of mine – I’ll call her Carol – asked me to help with a job cover letter last weekend, I said sure, piece of cake. I write and edit for a living. How difficult could it be to ...

Find an editor. It should go without saying, but a good cover letter is well-written and free of grammatical errors and other silly mistakes — like accidentally leaving in a reference to the ...

But the often despised cover letter is no longer optional—if you really want to get the job, that is. A study conducted by ResumeLab surveyed 200 hiring decision-makers to find out if cover ...