As Ph.D.s, we have focused our careers on graduate education and career counseling. If you’re about to be a job candidate, what follows is our best advice on cover letters.

Kevin Cash has applied to over 1,200 jobs since getting laid off. He's been ghosted 892 times. He now uses this simple and blunt cover letter.

Your cover letter has one job: get the recipient to read your resume. With attention spans getting shorter, getting to the point of why you're the right candidate is critical.

After taking a career break, I had to jump back into the job market. I used ChatGPT to find open roles, write my résumé and cover letter, and prepare for interviews. I landed my dream job in AI ...