Comment by squiffsquiff

I think that the elephant in the room here is "Why are cover letters required at all?". If it is relevant work/career/etc. experience then it should be in the CV. CV's are expected to have a clear structure and address specific points. Nobody looks sideways at parsing them without reading every word or searching for keywords. What's the argument for some fancy high-effort redraft that's hard to parse? Spoiler- headhunters very rarely request cover letters.