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Career Resources

You may find the following resources helpful in the preparation of your resume and cover letter.

Resumes

A resume, no matter how good, will not get you a job by itself. However, a good resume will attract the attention of the hiring manager and secure a job interview. The purpose of a resume is to disclose your accomplishments and qualifications to a potential employer. If the employer likes what she sees, she will contact you for a face to face meeting.

Think of your resume as a promotional brochure about you. You need to show a potential employer what you have accomplished and where your experience lies. Your strategy should be to emphasize the experience and skills that a particular employer is looking for.

Your resume is also an example of your communication and organizational skills. A well done resume is itself another reminder of what kind of valuable employee you would be. Likewise, a sloppily produced resume is a terrific way to get yourself taken out of the running before it even starts.

CareerBuilder's "How to" Guide: Resumes

Selecting the Right Format
How to select the correct format for your resume.

Resume Writing Tips
How to turn your resume into a winner.

More Resume Resources on the Web:

There are hundreds of willing resume advisers on the Web. Check Yahoo's collection of resume resources and commercial resume services for a large slice.

ProvenResumes.com's Resume Workshops
"Workshops To Help You Create Resumes That Sell Your Top Skills In Seconds"

Resumania
A service of the University of Minnesota's Office of Human Resources.

General Resume Tips for Everyone:

Resume Tips for Everyone
Yana Parker's great resume advice.

Susan Ireland - Fifty Sample Resumes
Ireland, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume, offers 50 sample resumes sorted by objective.

Preparing a Resume
8 step guide to writing a resume--from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Careers.wsj.com
Select Job Hunting Advice for resume & cover letter articles from the pages of the Wall Street Journal and National Business Employment Weekly.

What Do Employers Really Want in a Resume?
Useful tips from 1994 Professional Association of Resume Writers' Annual Convention.

Cover Letters

Perhaps the only thing job-seekers dread more than writing a resume is writing the cover letter to go with it. True, a resume requires good, solid writing and attention to detail, but a cover letter is addressed to a particular person--whoever is in charge of hiring--and requires the job-seeker to answer the most important question on that person's mind: "Why is this applicant the best qualified candidate for the job?"

How well you write a cover letter may play a large part in how effective your resume will be. A good cover letter may get you an interview; a bad one may make your resume little more than an afterthought.

CareerBuilder's "How to" Guide: Cover Letters

Cover Letter Content
What your cover letter should contain.

Formatting Cover Letters
How to correctly format your cover letter.

Cover Letter Writing Tips
How to turn your cover letter into a winner.

What the Experts Say About Cover Letters
Quotes from the real world.

More Cover Letter Resources on the Web:

***CareerLab - 200 Cover Letters
Excellent range of sample letters for all work purposes from William S. Frank's 200 Cover Letters for Job Hunters.

***Cover Letter Samples
A thematic list of samples from Susan Ireland, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Cover Letter: follow-up to a phone call, when you don't know the hiring manager, cover letter for an e-mailed resume.

*Cover Letters
Guidance and sample cover letters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's great job guide!

Sample Cover Letters
Vault.com offers common cover letter mistakes as well as other tips and samples.

Sample Cover Letters
Monster.com offers samples including a military to civilian letter, thank you and letter of recommendation.

Cover Letter Checklist
Use this list from Bucknell University before you mail that cover letter.

Cover Letter Types & Samples
From the Career Center at Virginia Tech.

Model Cover Letter
Very nice outline of the LEAST you need to know about writing a cover letter from the University of Buffalo.

College Grad Job Hunter: Best College Cover Letters
A chapter from College Grad Job Hunter. (1998, Quantum Leap Publishing.)

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