Who should I address the cover letter to?

For BB/Boutiques, who should I address the cover letter to? I researched a bit and checked linkedin, and the only names I could pull off the websites are the names of the MD and Vice President. Which one should I address the letter to? I don't want to write: " To whom It May Concern" because thats just useless.

 

If the job listing has a recruiter's name, use that. Otherwise, "To whom it may concern" is your best option. You might think it's useless, but addressing your cover letter to an MD would be ridiculous.

Cover letters are largely ignored, anyway - don't sweat this too much.

 

Yea, don't address it to some random MD if you are sending it to HR. See if you can find the name of the head of HR and address it to that person if you REALLY need to put a name on it. But you are fine sending it to "To whom it may concern", it isn't ridiculous. And quimby is right, unless you have a personal contact that you are sending it to nobody is going to read the cover letter.

 

Thanks! What about a smaller firm? They don't have director of human resources and campus recruiting, but they do have director of operations and director of administration. Which one should I address it to?

 

i used to run into exactly the same problems and it would annoy the hell out of me...through ocr, I now have details of most banks contact info for ib and s&t campus recruiting...so if you (or anyone else needs this), please pm me

alternatively, you could use linked in to search for stuff like campus recruiting or hr or campus investment banking etc and get a name within that companies profile...

for their physical address (particularly boutiques/MM etc) just go to their websites and get it from under contact details or just google map it (eg Moelis near NYC etc)

or you can just pm me and if I have what you need, i'll just reply back with it

 

I usully just say Dear Hiring Manager, "to whom it may concern is kinda detached", and "hiring committee" implies there is more than 1 person reading your resume"


Disclaimer: The post above has been made by someone who is not currently employed in IBD, and has not had an interview yet...

 

Why are there so many dumb cover letter questions recently? I'm glad that after Mr. White's rant about stupid questions, the "What are my chances?" posts have died down, but these are almost as bad.



If you need cover letter advice, pick up a fucking guide to cover letters. There are at least a million of them on Google. These questions are honestly from Cover Letters 101.

 

Do you honestly think i haven't searched this forum, used a cover letter guide, used Vault, to find an answer already etc. - I'm a type A from a target. Christ, why couldn't you just answer the question on top of being a d bag?

no cover letter guide has a specific answer to the question: should I address it to the HR contact versus the division I'm applying.

For example, MS has multiple divisions and to each one I used the HR Contact as the person to address it to - maybe I should have put "Dear MS IB, or Dear MS Pub. Finance" instead.

 

Sorry dude but I agree with b. This is a easy question that you can solve on your own. You might want to consider:

a. Is this an e-mailed cover letter? If so, why would you put an address on at all?

b. Is this through an online application system? If so, make sure the font of your resume and cover letter are identical. If you are truely a type A from a target, you should have no problems asking your career center.

At the end of the day, the header of your cover letter is going to be entirely ignored (except if you address it to the wrong company). What matters is the content. Good luck.

 

Hey thanks for the replies, I'm not worried about the formatting, just in regards to applying online. Here is my question more specifically:

My school (mid-tier target) uses E-recruiting but ALSO requires you to submit through the firm's website. On the firm's website, each division you are applying to requires a seperate cover letter. For these cover letters, should I just use the HR contact person from the Dartmouth E-Recruiting website, or should I just put: "Dear Morgan Stanley IB" or "Dear Morgan Stanley ST"

appreciate it.

 

haha yes I did...well, at least you guys know that me using the term "mid-tier target" is accurate.

I've been really stressed out and dumbed from the lack of sleep the past few days, but am recuperating since I have a superday tomorrow. I've had a bunch of MM interviews out of town and stuff. Anyways, it turned out it didn't matter what I put for the cover letter address, as several of you correctly pointed out.

 

big unit, I love how you post in this thread completely feigning like you go to Dartmouth (you and I both know that you don't) and later end up posting about offers at Wachovia...

I guess the natural thing to do when you get called out on asking a retarded question is to "inadvertently slip" the name of a school that you don't attend to add credibility to your post.

 

I always put the address of the office I'm applying to (even if HR is in another office) and put Dear Sir or Madam. The reason being that you are never sure of who is reading your Cover Letter.

 

I always put the address on too. In terms of addressing the recipient, I tend to just ask who I ought to address the letter to or if its vague (like Sam etc), I address Sir/Madam. If you can, phone up the office to find out, better to make an impression.

 

I would put the regional headquarters address. So if you're applying to Asia, use Hong Kong address. If you're applying to North America, use NY. If you're applying to EMEA, use London. Etc.

 

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