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Resumes and cover letters may seem like mere formalities, but in fact they’re often your best chance to make a good impression on a school. Many busy school recruiters place great value on the ...

The dreaded cover letter. Cover letters can be absolute torture, and it feels like there are a million ways to screw them up. Is yours too formal or informal? Too long or short? Too much information ...

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It’s time to bury the stuffy, outdated resume and cover letter that haunts job seekers and hiring managers alike. Here’s what we should be doing instead. The resume is old. Really old. There’s ...

Dear Sam: I just read in your column about how cover letters are still important. My sons are looking for jobs and have been most of the summer. Most of the jobs they’ve been applying for have been ...

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Toni Thompson is the head of HR at the Muse. She's read hundreds of résumés and cover letters. Here she talks about common mistakes she keeps seeing. The following is a transcript of the video. This ...