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This is unlikely to really matter, but I'm curious. Have you been sending cover letters with letterheads that match your resume, or simply addressing them like normal letters, sans letterhead?

Anonymous User wrote:This is unlikely to really matter, but I'm curious. Have you been sending cover letters with letterheads that match your resume, or simply addressing them like normal letters, sans letterhead?

I use the same header at the top on all documents I send just because I'm a sucker for consistency. I sort of want to brand the image (with my name in large, bold font) into their brains

I used the same header on my resume and my cover letter, mostly because using the heading on a cover letter saves a lot of space compared to addressing it like a regular old letter.

Aston2412 wrote:I used the same header on my resume and my cover letter, mostly because using the heading on a cover letter saves a lot of space compared to addressing it like a regular old letter.

Using the same header is fine, but if you are doing so to save space, you are not writing your cover letters well. They should be concise and to the point. If you need the space from standard block format, you need to edit the content.

I'm also a sucker for consistency, but my resume header didn't look right with the cover letter, even though it looks great with the actual resume. So my cover letters were traditional. The consistency argument doesn't work anyway, since I couldn't stick the same header onto the transcript. (Well, technically I could, but that would look odd, odd, odd.)