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Shorten a Cover Letter

Paste in a long cover letter and get a tightened, shorter version that keeps your strongest points. Free, instant tool.

Rewritten
[Condensed ~220-word version retaining the strongest anecdote and most relevant experience, with redundant phrasing and tangential roles removed, reading as a tighter, more confident letter.]

About this tool

It's easy to over-explain in a cover letter, especially once you start listing every relevant accomplishment you can think of — and a hiring manager skimming forty applications won't read past the second paragraph of a dense one. This tool cuts a long cover letter down to roughly half its length, trimming redundancy and filler while keeping the points that actually make your case. Use it after drafting with job-posting-to-cover-letter or writing your own long first draft, when the result feels bloated rather than sharp.

Frequently asked questions

Will shortening remove important details?+

The tool is instructed to keep your strongest points and only cut redundancy and filler, but always review the result to make sure nothing essential to your case got trimmed.

How much shorter will the output be?+

It targets roughly half the original length as a guideline, though the exact amount depends on how much genuine filler versus substance was in the original.

Can I use this on a cover letter that's already short?+

It works best on longer letters (300+ words) that have room to trim. On an already-tight letter, there may be little left to cut.

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