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An effective resume is:
- A marketing tool to use in combination with effective networking, job searching, and interviewing,
- designed to highlight you both as a person and as a professional,
- a selection of relevant information from your experiences, skills, education, accomplishments and more,
- a tool that highlights your best qualities for a particular career goal.
Check out the following resources in the Career Center and on the Internet to help you create a resume that fits your unique goals, aspirations, personality and experiences. Also, use the cover letter resources to create targeted application letters to enhance your job search.
Resources in the Career Center
Individual Appointments - If you have questions about your resume or a cover letter, you may schedule an individual appointment with a Career Center staff member. Stop by or e-mail career@NebrWesleyan.edu to set up an appointment.
Resume Handbook - A complete guide to writing your resume. The handbook explains how to begin writing your resume, describes different resume formats, and provides examples. Stop in and pick up your free copy!
Letters in the Job Search - This free handbook provides advice on using cover letters to enhance your job search. Lots of samples to guide you!
Resume and Cover Letter Critiquing - Once you've written a draft of your resume or cover letter, drop it by the Career Center for review. A staff member will critique it and have it ready for you to pick up after 3 p.m. the next day. We recommend that you always have someone review your resume before you create those final copies.
Resumes and Cover Letters
Resume Writing Center Career Mosaic
This site provides information for developing and fine-tuning electronic resumes, cover letters, and thank-you letters.
What is a Resume?
Advice on writing resumes and cover letters, links to other resources on the web, information on electronic resume banks (provided by JobWeb).
Resumes, Cover Letters, and More!
College Grad Hunter offers advice on resumes, cover letters, resume posting sites on the web, and job search strategies.
Cover Letter Resource Links
The JobStar Central site contains important information on writting effective cover letters.
200 Letters for Job Hunters
Samples of a variety of great letters related to the job search process taken from the bestselling book 200 Letters For Job Hunters by William S. Frank, who is widely recognized as one of America's leading letter writing experts.
Electronic Resumes
The Online Job Application: Preparing Your Resume for the Internet
Guidelines from the Riley Guide for preparing a resume for internet use.
"Preparing
the Ideal Scannable Resume"
On-line guidance for creating scannable resumes.
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