Resources for writing good cover letters? All the interesting jobs seem to require them now and my previous attempts have been... Bad

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Don’t write one

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Generally i don't but I've been looking at smaller firms and most seem to be requiring one. It looks like they all contracted with the same online application company on the backend

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