To be a successful job candidate in any field, it helps to have a cover letter that can grab an employer's attention. View our sample cover letter for a military-to-civilian transition below, or let ...

My son, a freshman at UCLA, recently asked me how to write a cover letter. He’s planning to major in communications, and an upper classman who’s already in the major (you have to apply), forwarded him ...

Like the commencement speech, the cover letter for an academic job is a straitened genre. Most of us don’t have to worry about writing commencement speeches (it’s a happy problem if you ever do), but ...

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