FREEBasic Cover Letter
A standard business-letter layout: your details, date, employer's details, greeting, three paragraphs, sign-off.
FREEFree ATS-Friendly Cover Letter Template
About this template
A letter with a plain text structure, standard fonts and no tables, headers-in-boxes or graphics, so applicant tracking systems read it in order.
The sample is a letter for a data analyst role. Replace it with your own.
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Layout: One-column
Preview: 1 page
Dimensions: A4, 8.27 × 11.69 in (210 × 297 mm)
Font: Cambria (name, headings and body text), Calibri (title and contact line)
Compatible with: Google Docs, Microsoft Word, PDF (exported from Word or Docs)
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Why letters get mangled
The same things that break resumes break letters: text boxes, columns, images. This layout avoids all of them. It pairs with the Clean ATS Resume and the other ATS resume templates. The Basic Cover Letter is the near-identical non-labelled version.
Writing it
Use the posting's wording for the role and key skills where they're true. The ATS-friendly resume guide applies to the letter too, and the cover letter guide covers structure. The Data Analyst Resume is a matching resume.
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