

Let's say that you read in the job description that the role reports to the editor in chief. You can try to figure out who the person filling out the open role would report to, that is the name of your potential future boss, and this would be the best thing for your cover letter. This is because, they would imagine that if you really had the passion for the job, you would have the time to tailor your greeting after doing the required amount of research.īut do not worry, we have just the right alternatives for you: It makes you sound ancient, to begin with, along with lazy and other such adjectives being attributed to you.

Today, using those five words in your letters tells a lot about you to your prospective boss and not much of it is good. Well, it was probably because getting a sufficient amount of information about a person before the age of the internet was rather tough. You might wonder, how " To Whom It May Concern", which seems rather irreverent in its addressing of the recipients, became the go-to form of address for an unknown recipient.
