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Cover Letters

A cover letter is typically attached to a curriculum vitae or resume to provide a personal introduction of yourself and explanation why you believe you are suitable for the position based on your previous experiences and interests. Cover letters do not typically exceed one page and are written in a formal tone.

Stefano Cover Letter

This stylish cover letter uses the scrlttr2 class to produce a beautiful and functional cover letter. The addressee information is placed such that it is visible in a windowed envelope. A large header and footer are present to draw the attention of the reader and succintly show your information.

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Lined Cover Letter

This template is defined by the horizontal lines at the top and bottom of the page and space for a logo at the top of the first page. The letter content displays your address and contact information first, followed by the addressee contact information, a subject and then the letter itself.

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This cover letter template features a classic conservative design and follows the standard LaTeX method of creating a letter document.

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Awesome CV Cover Letter

Awesome CV LaTeX Template for Cover Letter

This LaTeX template for cover letter matches with Awesome CV LaTeX template. It is easy to customize your own template, especially since it is really written by a clean, semantic markup.

This template has been downloaded from: https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV

Authors: Claud D. Park <[email protected]> Lars Richter <[email protected]>

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Using a viral CV/ cover letter LaTeX template for undergraduate research internships

I am planning to apply for a few undergraduate research internships and I recently learned LaTeX, so I am thinking of transferring my resume from Word to LaTeX. I came across LaTeX templates for a "Deedy CV" and a "Deedy Cover Letter" which apparently went viral in 2014. Admittedly, the "Deedy" templates look very attractive; in fact, they were the most attractive-looking CV/cover letter templates in the entire Overleaf gallery. Is it recommended that an undergraduate applying for undergraduate research internships uses the Deedy templates? What about a template for a somewhat infographic colored CV? Do these formats of CVs convey unprofessionalism in academia?

P.S. If this is relevant, I am in the US and am also planning to cold email some professors on the US to ask if they would be willing to take me on for a research position.

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• 3 It might help you to look at how academics present their CVs (a lot of academics, myself included, have their CV on their website or university page). Both presentation and content differ hugely from what is the norm in industry. –  astronat supports the strike Commented Aug 29, 2020 at 17:01
• The deedy template looks fine - What about a template for a somewhat infographic colored CV? <- I'd be careful with this –  Azor Ahai -him- Commented Aug 29, 2020 at 17:16
• 2 From a quick search, I disagree that this is a very attractive template. I think the two-column layout with two very different columns makes it very hard to access. I've seen far nicer looking and better to read latex templates. –  user151413 Commented Aug 29, 2020 at 20:37
• 1 It doesn't look standard. –  henning no longer feeds AI Commented Aug 30, 2020 at 12:19

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I'm sure that the recipient won't really be concerned with which template you use for your CV or cover letter. Most probably they are not familiar with what templates are available. What they will be concerned about is the contents, and do you offer what experience and qualifications they are looking for.

The documents just have to look respectable, that is all. You are overthinking this.

• 1 I don't think this is entirely overthinking - a badly formatted CV, which is hard to parse with a quick look, is certainly not helping the case. –  user151413 Commented Aug 29, 2020 at 20:38
• This is usually good advice, but certain disciplines and locations have more strict CV standards. –  Anonymous Physicist Commented Aug 30, 2020 at 2:24

A CV should allow to access the relevant information to judge if someone is (at least potentially) a suitable candidate quickly and easily.

This is true even more so if you are going to cold-email people. Professors get lots of such emails. They will first have a very quick look at your CV, and only if it looks like it might be a reasonable candidate to look at, they will give further consideration.

Thus, you want to have a CV where the relevant information is quickly to find and which is easily accessible.

The template you mention seems to me, at least in the two-column version with two completely independent columns which seems to be the standard one, impossible to parse quickly - one never knows which column to look at. So people might not find the information they are looking for or, worse, overloop it, since they don't know where to look for it and parse the right column only.

So I think it is important how you format your CV, especially if you are going to cold-email people. It should be formatted such that it is very easy to find relevant information - publications, education, and so forth. To this end, I think a single-column layout with clearly visibe captions is suited best. Beyond that, the "fanciness" of the actual layout is indeed not relevant.

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This template was originally published on ShareLaTeX and subsequently moved to Overleaf in November 2019.

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