Cracking the Cover Letter
Let the demystification begin!
I began last week’s workshop on cover letters by admitting that I hate writing them. I mean, what is a cover letter, anyway? What is it supposed to do? Isn’t a CV enough? Why do we have to write a cover letter on top of that?
We posed these and other questions to Prof. Megan Cook (Colby College), who suggested that, if a CV is like an ‘ingredients list’,…