The purpose of a cover letter is to introduce yourself to a prospective employer and explain why you are sending your resume. Therefore, a cover letter should accompany every resume and application.

How do you write a letter? Not just an email, or a business letter, but the hard-hitting, effusive, old-school letter, like the kind Rilke once wrote to a young poet, or that Winston Churchill wrote ...

Introduction part one : Yes, there's still a need for letters -- Introduction part two : Letter writing and the internet -- Letters as gifts : Love letters ; The love letter ; Great expectations ; ...

The Earl of Chesterfield, the 18th-century British statesman and patron of the arts, had a number of concerns about his illegitimate son Philip, but one he revisited often in his posthumously ...

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® who's been writing about money management and small business operations for more than a decade. She writes the newsletter Healthy Rich about ...

"What is healing, but a shift in perspective?” — Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast Transactional writing — or letter writing — gets you beyond what you thought you could not get over. With all the other ways ...

It’s a tough job market in today’s economy. If you want to stand out, you can’t just have a stellar resume; you also need to have a great cover letter. But many job seekers don’t know what cover ...