I will be updating the resources I’ve used to find a job. I am partly doing it for myself because I know I will spend another 12 hours finding the same resource, and my Chrome has already 44 tabs open.
As background, I come from a culture where cover letters are not common. I believe it would be the same for EVERYONE in the academic job search that cover letters are difficult to write, but it is really complicated for me. It is especially demoralizing when I fear that the search committee will use AI to scan keywords from my documents to filter me! Oh my. Hopefully everyone does their own due diligence so as not to waste everyone’s time.
The classic: (I am a bit intimidated by the tone of this article)
I find the graphic in the MIT resource very useful. If you are unfamiliar with the American letter-writing genre, terminology such as ‘letterhead’ is confusing.
Another note on terminology:
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