Resume and Job Letters
In the Resume and Job Letters assignment, the class was asked to first search for a quality job offering. This is an easy thing to accomplish, by simply looking online. There are several job search engines. I found Monster.com to be the quickest and easiest. If you are looking for a more detailed job, yahoo.com has a really amazing career search engine branch off the original search engine. From here, you can look up key words or other such information.
You will also need to find a current resume from someone in the field. The best idea is to talk to individuals you may know in the field. If they are currently employed in the field, then they most likely have a good resume. The best idea would be to find several resumes from the field. This will allow you to compare all of them and find commonalities between them. If you would like, you can choose the best of them. Using all of them would be equally fine.
Based on the information found from the sample resumes and the information found in the job ad, you will be required to create a resume of your own. The quickest way to accomplish this is to use an existing resume you already own. This will leave you only to change the information within and add new information based in the data you retrieved from the previous assignments. Another quick solution to the problem would be to create a rough draft by compiling all the information you need, such as work experience, education information, and references. This reference will make writing the resume and job letter quick and painless.
The last part of this assignment is to pretend you have been to an interview and create a thank you letter. Dr. Art gives excellent advice and examples in his power point presentations. Using his examples as a template, this part of the assignment should take thirty minutes at most.
After all the parts have been completed, do not think you are done. It is always important, as with any other writing assignment, to edit your writing. Small mistakes add up and will bring your grade down quickly. The writing center located on campus in the English building is a great place to get editing help. If you are anything like me, then you are probably not going to be able to edit your writing yourself. It’s always good to get another opinion on the matter. Dr. Art has a lot of office hours. It is easy to take your assignments to him for editing before the assignment is due.
The last advice I have is to not procrastinate until the last minute. It is not necessary to turn in assignments early. Dr. Art would appreciate this and claims it will help boost your grade, but it is not necessary to get an “A” in the class.
Below is my job letter, thank you letter, and resume. They are by no means perfect, but they should serve as an example to look at when attempting to finish your own assignment.
