Cover Letters That Get Interviews
The document that connects your CV to the job the employer is actually trying to fill
What you'll learn
- Decide when a cover letter helps and when it does not
- Write an opening that earns the second paragraph
- Match your evidence to an employer's stated needs
- Handle career changes, gaps and speculative applications
- Write short email and message versions that work
About this course
A CV answers "what have you done". A cover letter answers "why you, for this job, now" — and that is a different question, which is why a good CV with no letter, or with a generic one, frequently loses to a weaker CV with a letter that makes the connection explicit. Most cover letters fail in the first sentence. "I am writing to apply for the post of X as advertised in Y" tells the reader something they already know and wastes the only line guaranteed to be read. What follows is usually a restatement of the CV in paragraph form, which gives the reader nothing new and costs them time. This course covers the whole document: when to send one, the structure that works, the opening that earns attention, how to match evidence to requirements, and the short email and message versions that increasingly replace the formal letter.
Course content
Who this course is for
- Anyone applying for jobs
- Graduates writing first applications
- Career changers who need to explain the move
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