Cover letters

One resume, one cover letter

Each resume carries exactly one letter, because a resume is one complete application. Here's why, and how to handle a second one.

Every resume has exactly one cover letter. There's no letter list, no letter switcher, no naming letters, and no letter count anywhere in the product.

Why it works this way

A resume here is a complete application: the document, the job you're targeting, the letter that goes with it, and the review that scored it. All one thing.

That's how applying actually works. You don't have a floating pool of letters — you have a role you're going for, a resume tailored to it, and a letter that says why. Tying the letter to the resume means the two can never drift apart, and it means there's nothing to manage.

The alternative — a library of letters you assign to resumes — sounds flexible and in practice becomes an admin job, with three near-identical drafts and no memory of which one you sent where.

What this means day to day

  • Open a resume, switch to the Cover Letter tab, and you're on that resume's letter. Always the same one.
  • Change the target job on the resume, and the letter re-tailors to match.
  • Duplicate a resume, and its letter comes with the copy.
  • Delete a resume, and its letter goes with it.

Applying to a second job

Duplicate the resume. The copy gets its own target job and its own letter, and the original stays exactly as you left it.

Which option to pick, and what changes either way: applying to a second job.

If you want two versions of the same letter

Draft the second version in the same letter and download the one you prefer, or duplicate the resume so each version has its own home. What you can't do is stack two letters on one resume — and if that's a genuine constraint for you, tell us. That's the kind of thing worth hearing about.

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