While ProfHacker has covered two important components of a typical job application—CVs and recommendation letters—we have, surprisingly, given the cover letter short shrift.

If that seems like obvious advice, you might be surprised how often job candidates submit generic cover letters. For a part-time position that one of us recently posted, 94 candidates applied but ...

Academic Job Market; Academic Cover Letters; Academic Cover Letters. The cover letter is a single spaced, two-page introductory document that creates a narrative for your application package. It ...

Sample Cover Letter. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 89 Ames Street 61-210 Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 555-1212 [email protected]. Department of Chemistry Wonderful Religious University Great ...

Resumé and cover letter templates and samples. ... Resumé samples by faculty. These samples can give you an example of the type of information you might include on your resumé, or ways to highlight ...

In other industries, cover letters are becoming obsolete, and it will be interesting to see how this evolves within academic medicine. For now, candidates in academic medicine are well served to give ...

If written well a cover letter can be a great way to stand out as an applicant. Here are some resources to help you write an effective cover letter that will get your application noticed: Visit Career ...

Resumes, cover letters and writing samples are the first, and sometimes only, opportunity to make a positive impression on an employer. They must be perfect. Your entire work history and educational ...

Find instructions for building a resume and cover letter, a sample guide and easy-to-use templates to get started. Skip to site content. ... I discovered the position posted on the University of ...

More than 500 Harvard faculty signed a letter Sunday in support of embattled University President Claudine Gay amid intense blowback and calls for her firing after she failed to condemn students ...

Before Thanksgiving, 60 staff members signed onto a Nov. 9 faculty letter in support of arrested students that was previously delivered to President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20. The letter came a ...

Make sure your letter is free of spelling, grammar, syntax, and formatting errors. Save as a .pdf with your name and organization or position included in the file name. For more strategies, including ...