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Critique Your Cover Letter Like a Hiring Manager
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Job ad: {{JOB_AD}}
My cover letter: {{COVER_LETTER}}
Give me:
1. Your reaction after the first two sentences: keep reading or skim?
2. Does it answer the three questions you care about: can this person do the job, why do they want this job here, and what will they be like to work with? Score each 1-5 with the line that earns the score.
3. Generic lines: quote every sentence that could appear in anyone's letter for any job.
4. Unsupported claims: quote every claim about skills or personality that isn't backed by an example.
5. Missed opportunities: requirements in the ad the letter doesn't address, ranked by importance.
6. Length and tone: too long, too stiff, too casual, too eager?
7. A rewrite of the opening paragraph only, using only facts already in the letter, to show what better looks like.
Be specific and blunt. Don't invent achievements to fix the gaps; tell me what kind of evidence I should add.
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About this prompt
“Critique Your Cover Letter Like a Hiring Manager” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Writing & Creative category, 182 words long, added to The Prompt Index on October 28, 2026 by The Prompt Index. Copy it with the button above, paste it into ChatGPT or any other AI chat assistant, and send it.
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{{JOB_AD}}, {{COVER_LETTER}}.
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Recommended models: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.
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