how long should a cover letter be Usually we write a cover letter now a days to get a job as you know cover letter provides some extra information related to an person applying for job.Some people thought that writing a big cover letter may help them in gettinga job instead of others but this is not true.Your cover letter may be brief but should include relevant information related to you.We usually think that a 2 or 3 paged cover letter may impress the interviewer but the fact is that no interviewer has enough time to read a whole cover letter of 2 or 3 pages.He just want to know about additional information related to you and it depends on you how smartly you prepare you cover letter and present it in front of your interviewer.Try to keep it short hardly of one page not more than one usually a cover letter has some of your good qualities and all of the experience you had gained if you were working with some organisation.Besides this try to make it attractive because sometimes a n interviewer get obessed while reading information on a cover letter so if a cover letter with some different looks will be in front of his eyes he might feel frsh or have a clear look at your cover letter in his mind and may suggest yor name to the manager while looking for other good options at the company.So, try to make a different and small cover letter.