Maroon title card reading 4 Cover Letters, with four fanned sample letters above buttons labeled First job, Job change, Referral and Return to work.
  • Maroon title card reading 4 Cover Letters, with four fanned sample letters above buttons labeled First job, Job change, Referral and Return to work.
  • Four short opening paragraphs, one for each letter: First job, Job change, Referral and Return to work, taken from the sample PDF.
  • A filled-in first job cover letter for a made-up applicant, with notes on pointing to a class or club and ending with a start date.
  • A filled-in job change cover letter with notes: years in the current job, nothing negative about the employer, notice period.
  • A filled-in referral cover letter that opens with the person who suggested the applicant, with notes on how they know each other.
  • A filled-in return to work cover letter naming the dates of a break, with notes on giving a short reason and what was done to keep up.
  • The blank Referral letter with bracket prompts such as Referrer's Full Name, and a note counting 114 prompts across the four letters.
  • A sample letter page beside monospace text a script read from the .docx, with the words in the same order as the page.
  • Two copies of the sample letter side by side, labeled US Letter and A4, drawn at the same scale.
  • A list of five files: two zips of four .docx letters, two 4 page PDF previews and a zip with the Start Here PDF and Noto Serif font.

Cover Letter Template

One generic letter rarely fits every application, so this pack gives you four. The First-Job letter admits there is no paid work in the field yet and turns to a class, club or volunteer role. The Job-Change letter states how long you have been in your current role, one plain reason to leave, and when you could start given your notice. The Referral letter begins with whoever pointed you to the role and ends by saying they know you are applying, so ask before using it. The Return-to-Work letter gives the dates of your break and lets you keep the reason brief. Across them are 114 bracket prompts. Each letter is a separate .docx file, in Letter and A4. A made-up applicant fills the sample PDF.

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In Word for Mac and LibreOffice each file stayed on one page and the text order matched. Longer text was not typed. Google Docs, Pages and ATS not tried.

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What's included

  • Cover-Letters-Templates-Letter.zip and Cover-Letters-Templates-A4.zip, each with the four letters as separate .docx files
  • Cover-Letters-Sample-Preview-Letter.pdf and Cover-Letters-Sample-Preview-A4.pdf, 4 pages, the letters filled in for a made-up person
  • Start-Here-Samples-Fonts.zip: Start Here PDF, each filled sample as .docx in both sizes, the Noto Serif font files and their license
A list of five files: two zips of four .docx letters, two 4 page PDF previews and a zip with the Start Here PDF and Noto Serif font.

How it works

  1. Four short opening paragraphs, one for each letter: First job, Job change, Referral and Return to work, taken from the sample PDF.
    Four different openings The first line of each letter from the Sample Preview. They open differently on purpose.
  2. A filled-in first job cover letter for a made-up applicant, with notes on pointing to a class or club and ending with a start date.
    First job letter A filled-in letter that says there is no paid experience yet and points to a class or volunteer role.
  3. A filled-in job change cover letter with notes: years in the current job, nothing negative about the employer, notice period.
    Job change letter A filled-in letter with years in the current job, a plain reason for moving and a notice period.
  4. A filled-in referral cover letter that opens with the person who suggested the applicant, with notes on how they know each other.
    Referral letter A filled-in letter that opens with the person who suggested the applicant.
  5. A filled-in return to work cover letter naming the dates of a break, with notes on giving a short reason and what was done to keep up.
    Return to work letter A filled-in letter that names the dates of a break and what was done to keep up.
  6. The blank Referral letter with bracket prompts such as Referrer's Full Name, and a note counting 114 prompts across the four letters.
    The bracket prompts The blank Referral letter before anything is typed, with 114 prompts counted across the four.

Compatibility and file formats

A .docx file with ordinary text, heading styles and one column. No tables, text boxes, macros or add-ins. Scripts opened it in LibreOffice 26.8 and read the text with docx2txt, macOS textutil and, after a PDF export, pdftotext. With its font swapped for Liberation Sans or Liberation Serif in LibreOffice, each document stayed on one page. A script also opened this file in Microsoft Word for Mac 16.114.3 and exported a PDF: it stayed on one page and the words came out in the same order as the file. Word used Calibri, Arial or Noto depending on the file and what it could fetch, and no fonts were installed for the test. That test did not type longer text. Google Docs and Pages have not been tried, and no ATS was tested.

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Questions

Do I have to explain my break?

No. The Return-to-Work letter asks for the reason in as few words as you are comfortable sharing.

Can I use the Referral letter without asking the person?

Ask first. The last paragraph says they know you are applying and will speak about your work.

These are letter layouts with writing prompts. They give no career advice and cannot promise an interview or a job. The sample person, employers and numbers are made up. License: for your personal use only. No resale or sharing of this file. AI helped write the listing text, the how-to text, the prompts, the made-up sample entries and the code that builds this file. Scripts tested: the file structure (one column, no tables or text boxes, real heading styles), the reading order as text through docx2txt, textutil and pdftotext, the page count in LibreOffice, the page count with the font swapped, and the metadata. No person is claimed to have checked it unless stated here.