A cover letter is the one-page letter sent with your CV to sell yourself. Write a cover letter, a tailored cover letter, no cover letter attached.
Its job is to connect your history to this particular vacancy, which the CV cannot do. The British also say covering letter, and the two are interchangeable.
1nouncover letterThe one-page letter sent with your CV to sell yourself.
“A cover letter written for the job beats a general one every time.”
cover letter is a letter.
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