Complete cover letters for three UK roles
Three letters printed whole, header to sign-off, then read back a paragraph at a time.
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A cover letter is the only part of an application you write from nothing, which is why so much advice about them stops at the shape. Three paragraphs, tailor it, sound confident. None of that helps at the moment you are staring at an empty page. So these three pages print the letter itself. Header block, reference line, salutation, body, sign-off, all of it, for an administration post, a contact centre post and a new business sales post. Then each page reads its own letter back and says what every paragraph was doing, so you can tell which parts survive when your evidence is different.
Three letters, printed in full
Each page carries one whole letter and a paragraph by paragraph reading of it.
- Admin assistant. Written for a records and diary post, built on one checkable incident: 32 mismatches found by checking every transferred record against the original during a system migration. It also names the one requirement the candidate has not done.
- Customer service adviser. Addressed to a recruitment team with no name, so it shows the other salutation and the other sign-off. That page treats the letter as what it is to a service employer: a sample of how you write to customers.
- Sales executive. The shortest of the three, built on one number the candidate could defend: a lapsed account list of 120 names, worked in a fixed morning block, 19 of them reopened over eight months.
Yours sincerely follows a name, and yours faithfully follows Dear Sir or Madam. All three get that right, and the pages say why it is noticed.
Start with the letter nearest your advert
Choose by what the letter has to prove, not by the job title on it. If the advert is about accuracy, records or a diary, the admin assistant letter is the closest whatever the post is called. If it is about handling people in writing, take the adviser letter. If it turns on a number, take the sales one.
Then do what all three pages ask. Put the advert beside your draft, take its requirements in the order it lists them, and mark which sentence of yours answers each one. A requirement with nothing against it is either missing or belongs on the CV, and a sentence that answers nothing comes out.
If the CV is the weaker half of your application, the CV review will tell you so before you spend an evening on the letter.
Letting the generator write the first draft
When the shape is clear and the blank page is still the problem, Career Auntie will draft it for you. Give it the advert plus your CV or your saved career profile, and it writes a one-page formal UK business letter. Formality runs from casual through to very formal, and a recruitment agency toggle addresses the letter to the agency rather than to the end employer.
It cannot invent a figure that is not in what you gave it, so you have to bring your own equivalent of those 32 mismatches. The draft is editable in place and downloads as PDF or Word. A cover letter costs one credit, from five free credits a month.
A complete adviser letter you can work from, read as what it really is: a sample of how you write to customers.
A complete admin assistant letter you can work from, and the accuracy checks that decide how it reads.
A short sales letter you can work from, built around one number you can actually defend.
Common questions
The advert does not ask for a cover letter. Should I send one?
Send one if there is a field for it and you have something specific to say. A letter that repeats the CV adds nothing and costs the reader time. A letter that gives the volumes behind one CV bullet, or names a requirement you have not met, has earned its place on the pile.
How long should the letter be?
One page, and comfortably inside it. Three short paragraphs are enough to name the post, evidence what you handle and flag anything in the advert you have not done. A letter generated by Career Auntie comes out at about a page for that reason, as a formal UK business letter.
Should the letter repeat what is on my CV?
No. The CV lists what you did. The letter takes one or two of those lines and gives the reader the size, the circumstances and the result that the CV had no room for. If you could delete the letter and lose no information at all, it was not doing anything.
There is no name on the advert. Who do I address it to?
Look at the organisation's website and the advert's contact line first, because finding a name is itself the kind of task these jobs involve. If there genuinely is not one, open with Dear Sir or Madam and close with Yours faithfully. The adviser letter on this hub is written that way.
What does a generated letter cost?
One credit, and every account gets five free credits every month, renewing automatically, with no card needed. Credits are taken when you submit rather than when the document arrives, so a run you abandon halfway still uses one. The finished letter downloads as PDF or Word.