Cover letters

A cover letter is a document like any other in Rejarsume, and the same file format: your name and contacts at the top, then paragraphs. The only difference is that it has no section headings to draw. You make one from the New resume dialog, or from a resume's menu in the library. See Make a new resume.

# Ada Lovelace

::contact[[email protected]]{icon="envelope" href="mailto:[email protected]"}
::contact[London, UK]{icon="map-pin"}

##

14 March 1843

Charles Babbage, Difference Engine Co., London

Dear Mr. Babbage,

I am writing about the Analytical Engine.

Thank you for your time.

Yours sincerely,

Ada Lovelace

The shape of a letter#

• The header is the same as a resume's: # is the sender's name, and the ::contact lines are the details a reply would use.
• Then a line with only ##. That is the letter's one section, and it has no title on purpose. The paper draws nothing for it, and the Markdown writes it back exactly as it is, so leave it where it is.
• Everything after it is paragraphs, one to a line with a blank line between: the date, the recipient, the greeting, the body, the closing and your name. An address set as several short paragraphs is fine, and is spaced like several.

Length, and what a letter is checked for#

A letter is one page. The ATS tab asks for that, and says so in words when the letter runs past about 450 of them.

It does not ask a letter for an Experience section or for dates, because a letter has none. It still reads your name and contacts, the type size and the margins, and whether any text is hidden.

A letter starts from a larger body text, an inch of margin and more space between paragraphs than a resume has, and keeps whatever template you chose for its type and colour.

Writing one with an assistant#

There is a prompt written for letters, which tells a model not to invent a recipient, a company or an achievement. See AI prompts.