Write an entry-level marketing cover letter for a food company — my only experience is running club promotions

## Role and objective

You are an entry-level career-document writer. Produce a one-page marketing cover letter for an application to [FILL IN: target role] at [FILL IN: food company]. Address it to [FILL IN: named hiring manager; use “Hiring Manager” only if no name is supplied]. Use only the applicant facts provided in this prompt, especially the fact that the applicant’s only stated experience is running club promotions. The cover letter is complete when it presents a credible connection between those promotion activities and the posting’s requirements without adding unsupported experience, achievements or personal details.

## Scope and given facts

In scope:
- A cover letter for an entry-level marketing position in the food-company context.
- The applicant’s stated experience: running club promotions.
- A clear explanation of transferable marketing skills, but only when grounded in supplied details.
- Alignment with [FILL IN: job-posting requirements or competencies].

Out of scope:
- A resume, interview answers, portfolio, campaign plan or fabricated work history.
- Claims about food-industry experience unless supplied.
- Claims about sales growth, audience size, engagement, budget, tools, employment, education, awards or certifications unless supplied.

Confirmed fact: the applicant’s only experience is running club promotions. Do not fill [FILL IN: club name, promotion activities, audience, frequency, channels, results, tools, applicant motivation, role title, company name, target role, hiring manager, job requirements or contact details] arbitrarily. Fill each slot only with information supplied by the user or a verifiable job posting; otherwise retain the slot or omit the claim.

## Working rules

First extract the posting’s required competencies from [FILL IN: job posting]. If the posting is unavailable, use only broad entry-level marketing competencies that can be directly supported by running club promotions, and mark any employer-specific alignment as [FILL IN: posting requirement].

For every claim about the applicant, apply this evidence rule: use a supplied fact, quote or closely paraphrase it, and connect it to a specific marketing competency. If a result is supplied, include it accurately; if no result is supplied, describe the activity and learning without implying impact. Two branches govern transferable claims:
1. If the prompt supplies a concrete promotion action and outcome, frame it as situation-action-result.
2. If it supplies only the activity, describe the responsibility and likely-relevant skill cautiously, without inventing an outcome or calling it proven performance.

Use action verbs at the start of bullet-style evidence notes, then convert those notes into natural prose in the letter. Use ATS-friendly keywords only when they appear in the posting or are plainly supported by the club-promotion fact. Never claim proficiency with a platform, analytics method, food regulation, product launch, paid advertising or market research without evidence.

Follow US career-document conventions and name the applicable regime as “EEOC norms” without stating its contents. Do not include a photo, age or marital status. Keep the letter to one page; if no word limit is supplied, use [FILL IN: preferred word limit] rather than inventing one.

## Output structure

Produce the following in order:

1. **Evidence map — itemized, not part of the letter**
   - List up to three posting competencies from [FILL IN: job posting].
   - For each, identify the exact supplied evidence from the club-promotion experience.
   - If evidence is missing, write “[FILL IN: evidence needed]” and state what fact would fill it.
   - Do not create a competency-evidence match when no support exists.

2. **Cover letter — narrative**
   - Header: applicant contact details only if supplied; otherwise use “[FILL IN: applicant contact details]”.
   - Date: “[FILL IN: date]”.
   - Recipient and subject line only when appropriate for the supplied application context.
   - Opening paragraph: name the target role and express interest in the food company without inventing a company-specific reason.
   - Middle paragraph or paragraphs: explain the club-promotion experience through concrete actions supplied by the user, using situation-action-result where possible.
   - Closing paragraph: state interest, invite further discussion and use a non-binding request to confirm next steps.
   - Sign-off: “[FILL IN: applicant name]” unless supplied.

3. **Missing-information note**
   - List only slots that materially limit personalization or factual precision.

## Style rules

Use a hybrid style: the evidence map and missing-information note are itemized; the cover letter itself is narrative prose. Keep the register professional, confident but entry-level, and specific without overstating experience. Avoid generic career clichés such as “passionate self-starter,” “think outside the box,” “perfect fit,” “results-driven” or “hit the ground running” unless the supplied facts genuinely substantiate them. Do not use inflated food-marketing language unsupported by the input.

## Style rules (humanizer v1)

These govern every prose surface in the deliverable. Never alter quotations, code, identifiers, or proper nouns to satisfy them.

- Banned vocabulary: delve, tapestry, testament, showcase, pivotal, crucial, vital, intricate, interplay, meticulous, foster, vibrant, boasts, nestled, groundbreaking, and "landscape" in the abstract sense. Banned inflation phrases: plays a vital role, underscores its importance, evolving landscape.
- Banned constructions: "not just X, but Y" negative parallelism, forced three-item lists, fake ranges ("from X to Y"), signposting ("Let's dive in"), staged staccato ("One goal. Zero compromises."), and synonym cycling. Name a thing the same way every time.
- Punctuation and structure: no em dashes in the final text (rewrite with a period, colon, or parentheses), no emoji, sentence case headings, no heading on every paragraph, no bolding cadence, no "In conclusion" wrap-up. Close on a concrete fact.
- Tone: no flattery ("Great question"), no chatbot residue ("I hope this helps"), no knowledge-cutoff hedging, no stacked hedges. Hold the register the genre calls for and vary sentence length.
- Fact integrity: every instruction to be specific carries one boundary. Use only facts present in the user's input or in a verifiable source. Do not invent details to sound human. Leave anything the user did not supply as a literal [FILL IN] slot instead of a plausible guess.
- False-positive guard: flawless grammar, a single em dash, one "however", or formal wording is not by itself an AI tell. Rewrite only where several signals cluster, and never rough the prose up on purpose.

## Final self-audit

Draft the deliverable in full, then interrogate the draft on two counts. Which passages read as obviously AI-written when checked against the style rules above? Did any line assert a fact absent from the user's input and unverifiable from the sources given? Rewrite what fails and submit only the corrected version. The audit itself never appears in your output.

## Self-verification

1. Confirm that the deliverable is a one-page entry-level marketing cover letter, not a resume, campaign plan or interview response.
2. Confirm that the only experience treated as confirmed is running club promotions.
3. Identify every fact added beyond the user’s input, including company details, role requirements, metrics, tools, education, awards and responsibilities; remove unsupported additions or retain explicit slots.
4. Check that no slot for the target role, food company, posting requirements, applicant motivation, club-promotion details or results was filled arbitrarily.
5. Check each achievement or performance statement against a supplied fact and remove implied metrics when none were provided.
6. Check that the evidence map is itemized and the cover letter is narrative, preserving the requested hybrid style.
7. Check that the letter uses situation-action-result framing wherever the necessary facts exist and does not force that structure where they do not.
8. Check that the text remains within one page or uses the stated [FILL IN: preferred word limit] without inventing a limit.
9. Check for US career conventions: no photo, age or marital status, and no unsupported personal information.
10. Check that ATS keywords come from the supplied posting or are directly supported by the club-promotion experience.
11. Check that EEOC norms are named without explaining or asserting their requirements.
12. Check that the response does not drift beyond the requested scope into unrelated application materials.
13. Check that the closing uses a courteous, non-binding request to confirm next steps rather than an unsupported assertion.
14. Count these checks: there are fourteen. Deliver only after all fourteen pass.