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.

The cover letter was also too long for my liking, so you could either give ChatGPT a word limit or ask it to remove certain things. Next, ...

If you ask me, all those torturously long cover letters they use as examples must have been written by someone with an MBA, three Ph.D.s and a giant thesaurus. In, say, 1995.

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.