This is the second of five installments of “How to Get an Academic Job,” a new guide on the tenure-track search from our Career Talk columnists. Previously the series explored what to do “Before You ...

In this year’s hiring cycle, you may be sending out more than a dozen academic job applications, all of which have deadlines within a few weeks of one another. The prospect of tailoring each cover ...

Because no cover letter can convey all this information appropriately in only two pages, you will need to tailor your letter depending on the department, the university, the requirements specified in ...

Dear Sam: I have heard no one reads a cover letter. If so, do I need to take the time to write one? — Terri Dear Terri: A cover letter is your opportunity to introduce yourself to a prospective ...

The cover letter is its own unique, dreaded genre of writing. In a few — often formulaic — paragraphs, job applicants must accomplish several things: prostrate themselves at the feet of hiring ...

Google's Gemini AI creates personalized cover letters in seconds, using job posting keywords to beat ATS filters and save hours of manual writing.

Haaris Mian, founder of Professor Town, has officially launched a set of specialized services designed to help aspiring ...

Job hunters are using artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to do a tedious task: writing cover letters. Some took to Twitter and TikTok to share the results. In some cases, using ChatGPT to write your ...

A job seeker recently shared his experience on Reddit, where he sent over 50 job applications with carefully crafted cover letters but received zero responses. However, after using AI to refine his ...