Summer stretches before us, with all its potential for meeting research and writing goals. But if you’re going on the faculty-job market for the first time — as a recent Ph.D. or an advanced doctoral ...

Over the course of my career, I’ve read probably tens of thousands of cover letters. (And yes, that’s as boring as it sounds.

Something that should always go alongside your resume is your cover letter. Cover letters help you stand out to employers.

When applying for a job or internship, companies could ask you to send in several documents, such as a resume or work samples. In many cases, you may also have to include a cover letter for an ...

The point of a cover letter is to help a recruiter or hiring manager get to know you a bit better. Think of your resume as an outline of your career, and the cover letter as the description. A cover ...

The cover letter is its own unique, dreaded genre of writing. In a few — often formulaic — paragraphs, job applicants must accomplish several things: prostrate themselves at the feet of hiring ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

AI chatbot ChatGPT has the potential to shake up the world of work. One job seeker, Yary Rivera, told Insider that she's used ChatGPT to write 20 cover letters for jobs. She's already landed one ...

Cover letters and resumes can be tedious to write. ChatGPT, a popular AI chatbot, can write them quickly. But should you use them in your job hunt? In today’s competitive job market, candidates need ...

Will AI make resumes and cover letters even less useful than they were before? Quite possibly. Case in point, EarnBetter, a startup founded by former Credit Karma employees, is developing a platform ...