To Write an Authentic Cover Letter, Start With Your Gut
“Please send us a cover letter.” Six words that job applicants expect to see, but dread them all the same. You can exceed all the qualifications for a job, but writing? That’s not your bag. This discomfort makes a lot of us follow cookie cutter templates for cover letters and professional bios. If you use a generic template to format your cover letter, you will likely sound as fit for the part as anyone. But it’s competitive out there—what is the advantage of sounding just li
