A graduate scheme cover letter, and a gap that was not a requirement at all
One graduate scheme cover letter, printed exactly as the builder wrote it. The graduate and the scheme are invented. One item in its gaps list is a false positive, and the page explains it.
— the word scheme is a programming language to a machine.

A graduate application has a placement year and a final-year project to work with, and a hundred competitors with the same two things. Oluwaseun Ferrandine is invented, Kentmere Group is invented, and so are both of the employers named. The letter is real output: the evidence below was handed to the cover letter builder and the reply is printed word for word.
The scheme, and the evidence the letter may use
An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.
The role
Operations Graduate Scheme · Kentmere Group
The posting
Kentmere Group runs a two-year operations graduate scheme across four rotations. Graduates support project management on live workstreams, build analysis in Microsoft Excel, handle reporting to site managers, and present findings at the quarterly review. A placement year or comparable experience is expected.
What the letter may claim
- Delivered a placement project that cut changeover time on 2 lines by 14%.
- Built the shift reporting pack in Microsoft Excel that 3 site managers still use.
- Managed stock counts of 1 800 lines across a 12-week placement rotation.
- Presented findings to 20 managers at the site's quarterly review.
- Coordinated a student team of 5 on a final-year project delivered 2 weeks early.
Where it happened
- Placement Student · Wrayborne Manufacturing · 2024 — 2025
- Warehouse Assistant · Tallowfield Distribution · 2022 — 2023
Skills it may name
- Microsoft Excel
- process improvement
- reporting
- data analysis
- presenting
- teamwork
- continuous improvement
The letter the builder wrote
Direct voice, the one the door opens with. Three of the eight paragraphs are Oluwaseun's own sentences.
Dear Kentmere Group Hiring Team,
I'm applying for the Operations Graduate Scheme role at Kentmere Group.
Built the shift reporting pack in Microsoft Excel that 3 site managers still use.
Delivered a placement project that cut changeover time on 2 lines by 14%.
Managed stock counts of 1 800 lines across a 12-week placement rotation.
The posting asks for Microsoft Excel and Reporting — all of which I've worked with directly.
I'd welcome the chance to talk through any of this.
Oluwaseun Ferrandine
The gap that is not real
The engine returned two gaps for this posting: project management, which is fair, and Scheme, which is not. Scheme is a programming language, it sits in the matcher's skills list, and the phrase graduate scheme contains the word. The matcher therefore read a requirement that the advertisement never made, found nothing in the evidence to answer it, and reported it as missing. The same thing happens to the phrase pension scheme, which appears in the benefits block of a great many advertisements.
It is printed here rather than quietly removed, because a reader is better served by knowing that a gaps list can contain an artefact. It costs nothing in the letter itself: gaps are shown beside the draft and never asserted inside it, so a phantom requirement wastes a moment and not a sentence. The honest limits of every tool is the piece to read next.
Where each paragraph came from
Lines 6, 5 and 7 of the evidence list. The reporting pack line matched two named requirements at once and led. The placement project line and the stock count line went in on their figures. Four requirements were recognised in the advertisement, one of them the phantom described above.
The presentation line stayed out, and on a graduate scheme it is the one to promote by hand: presenting to twenty managers at a quarterly review is exactly what the final assessment centre tests. Remove a matched line on the Details step and it goes in.
What a graduate letter has to prove
That something you built is still in use. The reporting pack three site managers still use is worth more than a first-class degree in the first paragraph, because it survived your leaving. After that, a number attached to a placement: fourteen per cent off a changeover, eighteen hundred lines counted, a team of five delivered two weeks early.
The real gap, project management, is the honest one to prepare for. Applying when you meet half the criteria covers how to answer it without overclaiming, and a document for a first job covers the rest of the application.
The same evidence in the other two voices
Three voices ship with the builder, and changing one rewrites the connectors rather than the evidence. The ranking never sees the voice, so the same lines are selected in the same order in all three. Run on this page's own evidence, the warm voice opens "I'd like to be considered for the Operations Graduate Scheme role at Kentmere Group." and closes "I'd be glad to walk through any of this with you." The formal voice opens "I am writing to apply for the position of Operations Graduate Scheme at Kentmere Group." and closes "I would welcome the opportunity to discuss my application further." The middle connector changes with it: warm writes "You mention Microsoft Excel and Reporting; those have been the centre of my recent work." and formal writes "The role calls for Microsoft Excel and Reporting, each of which I have applied in practice." In the product, switching voice keeps the draft you already have as a version before it writes the new one, so nothing is lost by trying the other two.
The design, and what the door does
Column sets the metadata beside the story, which suits a letter with several employers and dates in it. The paper changes and the words do not, across all 12 designs in the gallery.
The door below opens 02 · Details with the role, the employer, the posting and the four evidence groups loaded and removable. Nothing is composed until you press Write the letter. Put your own placement in, paste the real advertisement, and the same ranking runs on your lines. The student résumé example shows the document those lines come from.
Open it on the Details step
Loads Oluwaseun's role, employer, posting and evidence into the cover letter builder in the Column design. Nothing is written until you press Write the letter. Free, no account.
Use this exampleSee the letter designsQuestions
- Is Oluwaseun Ferrandine a real person
- No. The graduate is invented for this page, and so are Kentmere Group, Wrayborne Manufacturing and Tallowfield Distribution. No hire is claimed.
- Did the product really write this letter
- Yes. The evidence list was posted to the same endpoint the Write the letter button posts to, and the reply is printed above unchanged. The engine reported three selected paragraphs, two matched requirements and two gaps, one of which is wrong.
- Why does the gaps list contain the word Scheme
- Because Scheme is a programming language in the matcher's skills list, and the phrase graduate scheme contains the word. It became a requirement that no evidence could answer. Measured against the product's own matcher while this page was written, and the phrase pension scheme does the same thing.
- Does the false positive change the letter
- No. The gaps list is shown beside the draft and never asserted in it, so a phantom requirement costs a reader a moment rather than a sentence. It is worth knowing that a gaps list can contain an artefact, which is why this page prints it.
- What does “Use this example” do
- It opens the cover letter builder on 02 · Details with the role, the employer, the posting and the four evidence groups already loaded. No letter and no application record exists until you press Write the letter.
- Which design is this example in
- Column, which sets the metadata beside the story. Any of the 12 designs carries the same words.
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