Practical exercise
Write a real three paragraph cover letter
You will pick one real job posting today and write a cover letter for it, in three short paragraphs, in under one page. The letter should sound like a person, not a petitioner.
30 min·starter
Now try it
Write a real three paragraph cover letter
Stretch
Send the actual cover letter and CV to the actual job. Whether or not you hear back, you have just shipped a real artifact, and that fact alone outranks ninety percent of your peers who only practiced.
Goes into your portfolio
The PDF cover letter, plus a screenshot of the job posting you wrote it for, both filed together in your portfolio folder.