Cover Letters prompts

10 prompts for cover letters, from the Career shelf of the Secure AI library. Each one is written to be sent as it is or filled in — the bracketed parts are where your own situation goes.

• Write a Cover Letter That Doesn't Sound Like a TemplateThe letter that doesn't get skimmed and binned.
• Explain a Career Gap in My Cover LetterOne honest sentence, and then you move on.
• Write a Cover Letter for a Career ChangeThe gap you were dreading, reframed as your edge.
• Write a Cover Letter With No Direct ExperienceMaking the case without apologizing or overclaiming.
• Work a Referral Into a Cover LetterUsing the referral without spending the whole letter on it.
• Adapt a Cover Letter to the CompanyThe same letter, tuned for two very different readers.
• Cut a Cover Letter in HalfHalf the words, same argument, honest about what was lost.
• Write a Cover Letter After Time AwayOne sentence on the gap, the rest on the job.
• Apply for an Internal MoveThey already know you; spend the words on the new team.
• Fix a Cover Letter's Opening LineFive openings only you could write, with the risky ones flagged.

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