Write a cover letter and fix your resume with AI

The assistant is a good editor and a poor biographer. Give it your real material, and keep the facts yours.

Guides · 4 min read · Written by the Taufa team · Updated 30 October 2026

Hiring managers read a lot of applications, and generic ones are easy to spot: the same opening line, the same adjectives, and no sign that the writer knows the company. An assistant makes it very easy to produce that kind of letter in seconds. Used well, it does something more useful: it helps you say true things about your own work clearly, and it helps you fit them to a particular job.

Give it your real material first

The quality of the output depends on what you put in. Before asking for anything, gather three things: your current resume (even a rough one), the full job description, and a few honest notes about what you have actually done. The notes matter most. Write them in plain words, including numbers where you have them.

What was the situation, and what was your part in it?
What did you do, and what changed because of it?
Any figures: how many people, how much money, how much time saved, how many users or customers?

Tailor the resume to the job

Paste the job description and your resume and ask for a comparison before asking for edits. This shows you which of your real experience matches what the employer asked for, and what is missing.

A prompt to adapt

Here is a job description and my resume. List the 8 skills or requirements the employer cares about most. For each, tell me whether my resume already shows it, and where. Do not add anything I have not done. Then suggest how to reorder or reword my existing bullet points so the most relevant ones come first.

Then work on the bullet points themselves. A strong bullet says what you did, how, and what resulted. Weak ones list duties.

Weak: "Responsible for managing the social media accounts."
Better: "Posted three times a week across Instagram and LinkedIn and grew followers from 800 to 2,300 in eight months." (Use your own real figures.)
Ask the assistant to rewrite a bullet starting with a strong verb, in under 20 words, using only the facts you give.

Draft the cover letter in your voice

Paste a short piece of your own writing, such as an email you wrote or a paragraph from a project report, and ask the assistant to match that tone. Then ask for a draft built from specific points rather than a general one.

A prompt to adapt

Write a cover letter of about 250 words for this role, in the same plain, direct tone as the sample I pasted. Open with one specific reason I want this company, not a general compliment. Use these three real achievements: [list]. Avoid clichés like "passionate team player" and "fast-paced environment". Do not add facts I have not given you.

Read the draft aloud. Anything you would not say in a conversation, change. Replace any sentence that could apply to any company with one that could only apply to this one. If you cannot write that sentence, research the company a little more before applying: its products, recent news, and the problems the role is there to solve.

Fix the basics

Keep the resume to one or two pages, with plain formatting. Many employers use software that reads resumes, and tables, columns and images can confuse it.
Use the same keywords the job description uses where they honestly apply to you, for example the exact name of a tool you have used.
Put contact details at the top and check that every date and job title matches your documents.
Ask the assistant to flag spelling, tense changes and inconsistent date formats, and then check its edits yourself.

Prepare for the interview that follows

Everything on your resume is now fair game. Ask the assistant to act as the interviewer, to ask follow-up questions about each bullet, and to push when your answer is vague. Practising out loud against a realistic set of questions is one of the best uses of the time you save on writing.

A prompt to adapt

Act as a hiring manager interviewing me for this role. Ask me one question at a time, starting with questions about my resume. After each answer, tell me what was clear, what was vague, and how I could make it more specific. Do not give model answers unless I ask.

A checklist before you send

Every claim is true and you could explain it in an interview.
The letter names the company, the role and one specific reason you want it.
The numbers match your records.
You have read the whole thing aloud and it sounds like you.
The file is clearly named, for example "Priya-Sharma-Resume.pdf".

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