Shorten Your Cover Letter to One Page
The consensus among recruiters is brutal and consistent: a cover letter should fit comfortably on one page - roughly 250 to 400 words - and shorter usually beats longer. Hiring managers skim, and a dense full-page letter often goes unread entirely.
WordLimit compresses your draft to the length you choose while keeping the specific achievements, numbers, and role-relevant keywords that make the case for an interview. Your letter keeps your professional voice instead of collapsing into template phrases.
Openers like 'I am writing to express my interest in' spend a full line saying nothing. Start with why you fit this role.
A single concrete achievement with a number persuades more than a paragraph of adjectives. When cutting, keep the proof and drop the self-description.
Many companies screen letters with the same ATS that reads resumes. Protect the exact skill terms from the posting when you trim.
Target 250-400 words in three or four short paragraphs - comfortably under one page. Recruiters spend well under a minute on a first read, so concision reads as competence.
Yes. Set an exact word target - say 300 words - and WordLimit trims your draft to meet it while keeping your strongest achievements and the role-specific keywords.
No. WordLimit removes redundancy from your own sentences rather than rewriting them in template language, so the letter that comes out still sounds like you.
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