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title: Cover letter builder
description: The Cover Letter Builder uses your CV, job description, and inputs—combined with AI—to create a personalised, role-specific cover letter.
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# Cover letter builder

## The cover letter builder uses your CV, job description, and inputs—combined with AI—to create a personalised, role-specific cover letter.

### Accessing the cover letter builder

- Dashboard Quick Access Button 
- Navigation bar on left-hand side 'Cover letter builder'

### To begin building a cover letter, you need:

- **Job Description (JD):** Either a full JD or a job title and industry. 
    - A full JD to paste into the text box (no URLs, images, or PDFs).
- **CV:** Choose a completed THM CV, create a new CV, or use your own CV.

Once the JD or CV route is confirmed, the JD cannot be edited. To change them, you will need to start a new cover letter.

### Step-by-step guide

#### Step 1: Job details

- Purpose: Surface job specifics 
    - Full JD path: AI pre-fills details.
    - No JD: User manually enters details.

#### Step 2: Experience

- Purpose: Select relevant job experiences. 
    - Choose experiences pulled from THM CV, add new experience
- Motivation: User writes personal motivation for applying. 
    - Use ['Write with Ruru'](https://info.tehekemai.co.nz/write-with-ruru-?hsLang=en-nz) for extra support filling in your motivation

#### Step 3: Skills

- Purpose: Select relevant skills to mention in your cover letter
- Technical and Soft Skills: AI-generated based on JD or job title/industry. 
    - Add extra skills that suit the role being applied to

#### Step 4: Skill detail

- Purpose: Describe how each selected skill was used in real life (this can include based on work experiences or general lived experiences)
- Use ['Write with Ruru'](https://info.tehekemai.co.nz/write-with-ruru-?hsLang=en-nz) for extra support, filling in the details

#### Step 5: Culture fit

- Purpose: Select relevant culture details to mention in your cover letter
- Culture Values: AI-generated from JD or job title/industry. 
    - Add extra skills that suit the role being applied to

#### Step 6: Culture detail

- Purpose: Users describe how they match selected culture/company values.
- Use ['Write with Ruru'](https://info.tehekemai.co.nz/write-with-ruru-?hsLang=en-nz) for extra support filling in the details

#### Step 7: Last bits

- Additional Info: e.g. Add visa status, availability, etc.
- Personal Details: Pre-populated from account settings.

#### Step 8: Preview

- Preview: AI-generated from all the details provided  
    - Review and edit cover letter as needed
    - Note: any edits on the preview will be lost if the preview is regenerated (edit any past steps)

### Finalisation

- PDF Generation: Once finalised, a downloadable PDF is created.

 

 

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