Cover Letter Templates

Cover letter templates for every role

Match your resume with a cover letter built for your exact job title and career stage. ATS-friendly, professionally formatted, and ready to personalize.

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One for every resume template
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PDF, DOCX and plain text

What does a cover letter template give you that a blank page does not?

A shape to argue in. Most people can describe their work well enough in conversation and still stall on a blank document, because the hard part is not the sentences, it is knowing what each paragraph is for. A template answers that before you type: the opening names the role and why you are writing, the middle carries the one or two specific things you have done that map onto what the posting asks for, and the close ends without begging.

The second thing it gives you is formatting you do not have to think about. Margins, line length, the position of the address block and the spacing between paragraphs are already set to something a person can read quickly on a phone. Every template in this gallery is checked by a parser first, so the letter stays readable whether a human opens it or an applicant tracking system indexes it.

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172 job titles across 22 industries, each paired with a career stage from student through executive. Filter by occupation, stage, layout or style, or search for your title directly.

Choose from 462 ATS-friendly cover letter templates across 22 industries

Should you send a cover letter if the application says it is optional?

Send one when you have something to say that the resume cannot carry: a gap worth explaining, a change of industry, a reason you want this employer and not the ten adjacent ones, a piece of work that needs two sentences of context to land. In those cases the letter is the only place that argument can live, and skipping it means nobody ever hears it.

Skip it, or keep it to four honest lines, when the letter would only restate the resume. A restated resume is the fastest way to be skimmed and closed, and a long one is worse than none. The test is simple: read your draft and ask what a hiring manager learns from it that the resume did not already tell them. If the answer is nothing, the paragraph is doing nothing.

How do you pair a cover letter with your resume?

Choose the resume first. Open the resume templates gallery, pick the design that fits your role and stage, then come back and take the letter carrying the same format and accent. The two galleries run on one design system, so the pair arrives looking deliberate rather than assembled.

If you would rather see finished documents before committing to a layout, the cover letter examples and resume examples show the same designs filled in, which is the faster way to judge pacing and how much text a page will actually hold.

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They are drawn from the same design system, so a letter and a resume picked from the two galleries share their typeface, their spacing scale and the way headings are treated. Sent together they read as one application rather than two documents that happened to arrive in the same email. That matters more than it sounds. A hiring manager who opens both in a row registers a mismatch before reading a word, and a mismatched pair quietly suggests the letter was written for somebody else's job. The simplest route is to choose the resume first, then take the letter carrying the same format and accent. If your resume was written elsewhere, pick the letter template whose type and weight sit closest to it and export both to the same file format so the header of one does not tower over the header of the other.

Often, yes. Plenty of portals store the letter as a second document on the same application record, index its text alongside the resume, and surface it to whoever screens the shortlist. Some strip it to plain text on upload and keep only what survived. That is why these templates use the same clean layouts, readable fonts and standard structure as the resume templates, and why each one is checked by a parser before it reaches this gallery. A letter that arrives as an unreadable block helps nobody. In practice it means keeping the letter as real text, never putting anything you cannot afford to lose in a header or a footer, and exporting in whatever format the posting asks for. Where an application gives you a plain textarea instead of an upload, paste the plain-text export.

Each one is generated for a job title and a career stage, so the opening, the body and the close already sit at the length and tone that role expects instead of a blank page you have to shape yourself. An entry-level letter spends its middle paragraph on what you have built and learned. A manager-level letter spends it on what you ran and what changed as a result. A career-change letter spends it on the through-line between where you have been and where you are applying. The structure tells you what belongs in each paragraph, which is usually the hard part of writing one at all. The wording is a starting draft rather than a script. Replace it with your own specifics, because the sentences that get you read are the ones only you could write.

The real thing. Every template here is a live component rendered with sample content rather than a picture of one, so the page you scroll through in this gallery is the file that exports. Nothing is redrawn at download time, and no print stylesheet quietly moves the margins between what you approved and what a hiring manager opens. The sample name and body text are placeholders. Everything else, the type, the spacing, the position of the address block, the width of the body column, is exactly what you get. Judge them the way a reader will: open two or three, see where your eye lands first, and keep the one whose opening paragraph is easiest to start reading. That instinct is a better guide than any checklist, because it is the same instinct the person screening your application will be running on. Export comes in PDF, Word (DOCX) and plain text.

Nothing to start, and no card. Pick a template, write the letter, and export it to PDF, Word (DOCX) or plain text depending on what the application will accept. Pricing beyond that is not published on this site, so if you find a figure quoted somewhere else, check it in the app rather than trusting it. What is worth knowing before you begin is that both the template and example galleries are public and need no account to browse, so you can decide whether the format suits you before signing up for anything at all. If the posting wants the letter pasted into a form rather than attached as a file, use the plain-text export: it keeps the paragraph breaks and drops the formatting the form would have stripped anyway, which saves you discovering the damage after you have already submitted.

All of it. The template hands you structure and formatting, and nothing in the sample text is load-bearing. The edit worth making first is tailoring: paste the job description you are applying to, and the letter can be rewritten against the terms that posting actually uses and the experience your resume already proves, rather than against a generic idea of the role. Cut any paragraph that says nothing. Name the team, the product or the problem you want to work on, because that is the sentence a hiring manager remembers an hour later. Then save it as its own version, so the letter you send tomorrow does not overwrite the one you sent today. Export in PDF, DOCX or plain text, and come back to the same draft when the next posting needs a different opening.

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