Learning Path: Resume and Cover Letter Development

Resume Writing 

Tell your story; relevant information 

• Education; degrees, certificates, licenses  
• Skills; job specific, transferable, soft
• Employment; starting with most recent/current 
• Languages; list foreign languages and fluency levels 
• Honors and Awards; received from school, work and/or community 
• Professional/Community Involvement; highlight leadership roles 

Resume Package: Accurate-Appealing-Effective

Watch: Resume Writing Do's & Don'ts  (external link: Candid Career) Links to an external site.

Case in Point 

Name: Kaneisha Grayson, BS, MBA, MPA

About: Kaneisha is the founder of The Art of Applying, an online service dedicated to helping students apply to and get accepted to graduate school. Ranging from resume and cover letter advice to professional and relationship advice, Kaneisha shows us how she turned an idea into a thriving business.

Resume Red Flags: Some of the biggest red flags are just an ugly resume that's just too much content jammed onto the page. I literally do not and often don't read them, when they're that jammed. It's just like, that's a headache on a paper and I can't look at it.

The solution to that is more white space. It is better to have less content that is easily readable, than more content that is jammed together and an eye sore.

Secondly, a lot of people (students) are not/do not quantify their results of their efforts enough. They will just say, organized an event. And it's like, were there 40 people, 400, 4,000? It's not even that more is better, it's just
that quantifying is better than not quantifying.

Putting to Practice

What story is your Resume and Cover Letter telling?

Job seeking documents provide employers with a glimpse of your written communication abilities, and who you are in terms of your passion and job qualifications. 

What impression are you making with your current resume and cover letter? 

Within this module we will take to time to make revisions to your professional job seeking documents. Ensuing they are: free of spelling and grammatical errors and strategically written to provide successful internship/job search outcomes.