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Cracking the Cover Letter

Let the demystification begin!

Mary Flannery
Oct 28, 2022
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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’,…

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