Cover letter
A letter or email drafted from your CV and one job ad, with nothing in it your CV does not say.
“Cover letter” opens after the analysis.
- Letter or email: Choose a letter, or an email with a subject line. Choose a short, medium or long text: about 150, 250 or 350 words.
- CV facts only: Every paragraph is checked against your CV. A paragraph naming a skill, number or employer your CV does not show is dropped, and the panel says how many were dropped.
- Personalise: Ask for a change in plain words, such as "make it more formal". A request to add something your CV does not show is not carried out.
- Export: Copy the text, or download it as a .txt or .docx file.
- Runs on your model: Drafting starts only when you click, and uses the model you turned on. Without one, the panel tells you what to turn on.
How does the cover letter helper write a cover letter from my CV and a job ad?
The cover letter helper sends your CV text, the job ad and the list of ad terms your CV has evidence for to the model you turned on, and asks for a letter built only from facts in the CV. Every returned paragraph is then checked against the CV before you see it.
The model is told which ad terms your CV lacks and that it must never claim them. Where a result would belong but your resume gives no number, it is asked to write a placeholder such as [quantify: what is missing] instead of inventing one. The employer’s name is the one detail the job ad may supply, because it is a fact of the vacancy; numbers and technologies are claims about you and must come from the CV. The letter is written in the language of your CV, so a German Lebenslauf gets a German draft.
Which formats and lengths can I choose?
The cover letter helper offers two formats, a letter or an email with a subject line, and three lengths with a word cap each. The model is told the cap, and the helper enforces it afterwards.
Enforcement keeps whole paragraphs while the running total fits and drops the rest from the end, because cutting inside a paragraph could leave a half sentence that no longer matches your CV. The opening paragraph is always kept, even if it alone runs over. A subject line is only kept for the email format, and it goes through the same CV check as the paragraphs.
| Choice | What the draft gets |
|---|---|
| Letter (default) | Three or four short paragraphs, no subject line |
| A subject line naming the role as the ad names it, a greeting, two or three short paragraphs | |
| Short | At most 150 words |
| Medium (default) | At most 250 words |
| Long | At most 350 words |
Example: what happens when the job ad asks for a skill my CV does not show?
When a drafted paragraph names a skill, number or employer your CV does not contain, the cover letter helper drops that paragraph and tells you how many were dropped. It does not quietly repair the sentence.
Say your resume lists Playwright and “cut regression time by 40%”, and the ad asks for Playwright and Kubernetes. A paragraph about your Playwright work and the 40% figure passes. A paragraph claiming Kubernetes experience fails, and the panel shows “1 paragraph went beyond what your CV says and was dropped”. If every paragraph fails, no letter is shown and you are asked to add the evidence to your CV first. The same check runs when you personalise: a request such as “mention my AWS certificate” is not carried out unless your CV shows that certificate, and a revision that leaves nothing usable keeps your current draft unchanged.
What does the cover letter helper not do?
The cover letter helper does not draft anything without a model you turn on, and it does not draft until you click. It never adds experience, tools or results your CV does not state.
Without a job ad and CV text there is nothing to draft from, so the helper needs both. Personalising takes one plain-language change at a time, up to 300 characters per request and five changes per draft; after that you draft again to start over. The changes you applied are listed, but only for the current draft. The letter never feeds into your ATS score. You can copy it or download it as a .txt or .docx file, and it is a draft: read it and edit it before you send it.
“Cover letter” opens after the analysis.
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