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You will need to include additional documents with every résumé you send out, whether it's applying to an online application, responding to a job ad by e-mail, or following up on a referral from your ...

Not all job applications require cover letters. You can imagine which kinds of industries care about them (anything that involves written communications like law, publishing, marketing) and those that ...

Resume vs Cover Letter: When applying for a job, every company may follow its own hiring process, but some requirements are universal. One of the most common is the resume—almost every employer asks ...

While specific styles of résumés can reflect different career fields and industries, the cover letter offers a much less structured document, and so often leads to much more confusion among job ...

Sociologist Andrew Whitehead started a Twitter thread some months ago detailing his take on various stages of the academic job market. For the cover letter, he gave excellent advice. He suggested ...

"Cover letters are dead." This thought cuts across the grain of common recruiter-speak. It suggests that for most purposes in recruiting, the cover letter doesn't matter. Let me stand in the gap and ...

A well-crafted resume and cover letter are essential to securing an interview and moving further in the job search. Career Services provides resources to help you develop your resume and cover letter, ...

Ask a college graduate what their goal is after college, and they will tell you they want to land a job and hopefully make six-figures per year one day. Follow up the previous question with a question ...

In the world of recruiters and executive search firms, resumes rule, but this doesn't mean you should ignore or forgo sending cover letters. "If a candidate's resume is a good fit to what I'm looking ...