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Can the ‘Pitch Deck’ Help Academics?
March 10, 2023
By Rachel Toor
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6 Tips to Improve Your Cover Letter
The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 08, 2019
By Leonard Cassuto
Like the commencement speech, the cover letter for an academic job is a straitened genre. Most of us don’t have to worry about writing commencement speeches (it’s a happy problem if you ever do), but thousands of graduate students and recent Ph.D.s write cover letters every year.
Strict conventions govern cover letters for faculty positions, so it’s relatively easy to write a passable one: Just follow the rules. But it’s much harder to write one that really stands out to a search committee.