Optimal Resume

Nebraska Wesleyan University now offers Optimal Resume , an online resume building service, free to NWU students.

• Create your own resume easily and quickly
• Download your resume into three formats: Word, Text, and Flash.
• Create an interactive resume website to enhance your job search.

Optimal Resume guides you every step of the way in the resume creation process. Sign in using your NWU email address.

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