Written examples
Cover letters by job
Every example here is written in full for one specific role — not a fill-in-the-blank template. Read it, see why each paragraph is built the way it is, then write yours around your own numbers.
8 examples
- Cover letter with no experience — a full exampleThe commonest mistake in a first cover letter is apologising for the lack of experience in the opening line. Nobody hires an apology. A letter that works never mentions the gap at all — it replaces it with something concrete: a graduation project, volunteering, an internship, or a skill you taught yourself and can demonstrate.Read the example
- Graduate cover letter — a full exampleA new graduate has one thing nobody else does: current knowledge of tools and standards that someone who graduated ten years ago never studied. A letter that works leans on that instead of apologising for the short career, and turns the internship and the final-year project into concrete results.Read the example
- Accountant cover letter — a full exampleAn accountant's letter is read by someone who works with numbers all day. General claims like "accurate and organised" mean nothing to them; close duration, budget size, entry volume and professional certifications do. Write in their language.Read the example
- Customer service cover letter — a full exampleCustomer service roles are measured on clear numbers: call volume, handling time, satisfaction score, first-contact resolution. An applicant who cites those has demonstrably done the job — unlike one who describes themselves as "good with people".Read the example
- Administrative assistant cover letter — a full exampleAdministrative work looks unmeasurable, which is why most letters for these roles are weak. It measures perfectly well: how many managers you support, how many meetings a week, how large the filing system, how much time you saved by automating something repetitive.Read the example
- Teacher cover letter — a full exampleA teacher's letter is read by a head who is looking for impact on attainment, not for love of the profession. "I am passionate about teaching" appears in every letter they receive. What doesn't appear is a number describing how your students improved.Read the example
- Nurse cover letter — a full exampleHealthcare hiring begins with licence verification before anything else: Saudi Commission for Health Specialties classification, years of experience, the unit, and certifications such as BLS and ACLS. A letter that doesn't state these in the first two paragraphs delays itself for no reason.Read the example
- Sales representative cover letter — a full exampleNo role is judged on numbers the way sales is. A sales manager reads your letter looking for two: what your target was, and how much of it you hit. If they aren't there, they assume the worst — and your letter is competing with ones that state both plainly.Read the example