A covering letter is the letter sent with an application explaining yourself. Write a covering letter, a tailored covering letter.
Its job is to connect your history to this particular post, which the CV cannot do. Americans say cover letter, and the two mean exactly the same thing.
1nouncovering letterThe letter sent with an application explaining yourself.
“The covering letter was better than the CV and got her the interview.”
covering letter is a letter.
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