RESUME and COVER LETTER

(5 points each)

ASSIGNMENT

PREPARE A COVER LETTER AND RESUME FOR:  

1)      AN ACTUAL ADVERTISED JOB (ATTACH NEWSPAPER AD OR WEB POSTING)

or

2)     A SPECIFIC CAREER OR POSITION (WHICH CAN BE SENT TO SEVERAL EMPLOYERS IN THE SAME FIELD)

See Keys, chapter 26, p. 303

21st Century Skills

Career Resource Advisor
Manatee Community College
(941) 752-5259

Select one of the THREE TYPES OF RESUMES

CHRONOLOGICAL RESUME

FUNCTIONAL RESUME

COMBINATION RESUME   

GENERIC MODEL FOR COVER LETTER 

student model for letter and combination resume

OTHER STUDENT SAMPLES OF COVER LETTERS

GENERIC MODEL FOR FUNCTIONAL RESUME 

STUDENT MODEL1: FUNCTIONAL RESUME

student model for letter and combination resume

RESOURCES Internet job sites your resume should be on
Staff Writer, The Career News

LOS ANGELES, CA -- With over 4 million current online advertised vacancies, clearly hiring manager are turning to career websites to instantly find qualified candidates currently in the job market. Sure many companies use the top 5 job sites. However only a portion of the available online jobs are on those sites. With large fees charged by the biggest job boards, there are also many hiring managers turning to a variety of the smaller job boards to look for new employees too.

So while it may take some time, the best thing to do is post your resume on ALL the best sites, large and small. If you want the exposure but also want to avoid spending 60 hours filling out 80 or so online web forms, consider letting a service like Resume Rabbit do the work for you. Fill out just one easy form and in about 5 minutes you'll be posted on 80 top career sites like Monster, Job.com, CareerBuilder, Net-Temps, Dice and more. A comprehensive list of all the sites they post to is on their home page.

Whether you do it by hand or use a service like Resume Rabbit, creating accounts on all the best career sites will give you access to millions of jobs and exposure to 1.5 million employers and recruiters daily. To try Resume Rabbit now, go to this link.

Helpful Websites for job postings and resume models

http://resume.monster.com/

http://editorial.careers.msn.com/gettinghired/resumes/

http://www.jobweb.com/Resumes_Interviews/default.htm