Resumes and Cover Letters
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Resumes
Career Education Center - Career Counseling
In addition to the following resume writing resources, you can make an appointment to have a career counselor critique your resume. The counselors will help you format your resume, arrange the content to your greatest advantage, and even tailor it to a specific job description.
- Weekly Drop-In Hours for Career Counseling
- Have a brief question? Need your resume or cover letter reviewed? Drop by to meet with a career :counselor in the Career Education Center, P304. First come first serve:
- Mondays and Tuesdays, 3-4:30pm
- Wednesdays and Thursdays, 1:30-3pm
Career Services @ Virginia Tech - Resumes and vitae
Virginia Tech's Career Services web site features in-depth resume information and advice on resume formats and samples, software and templates, scannable resumes, emailing vs. photocopying, frequent mistakes, and more.
JobStar Resume Guide
This one-stop job information site features sample resumes, and resume tips. It demystifies online resume banks, and helps you to choose the right resume for you.
ResumeDoctor.com Resource Center
Tips for what to do and what NOT to do with your resume based on survey results from headhunters, recruiters, and hiring managers. Provided by a commercial resume consulting service.
Rockport Institute: How to Write a Masterpiece of a Resume
Basic principles of resume writing excerpted from the bestselling book, The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success.
Simmons College Career Education Center - Resume Writing
Excellent introduction to resume presentation and writing, with sample resumes, by the CEC counselors.
TechnicalJobSearch.com - Sample Resumes
Sample resumes for different levels of employment are provided. In addition, the resumes provided are all critiqued and edited, so that the revisions made are available for viewing.
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Resumes By Field
JobWeb.com
View sample resumes for many different occupations. JobWeb is the online complement to the Job Choices job-search publications by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
Resumes For...
This VGM Career Horizons print series features titles such as Resumes for Science Careers, Resumes for Education Careers, Resumes for First Time Job Hunters, and Resumes for Mid Career Job Hunters. All can be found in the CRL.
Susan Ireland Resumes - Sample Resumes by Occupation
An online library of over fifty sample resumes in different fields and with varying formats, from the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume.
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Electronic Resumes
About.com: Tech Careers - Writing Electronic Resumes
Tips for creating plain-text ASCII resumes for emailing and posting to job sites. Other topics include keywords and scannable resumes. Follow the links to read more in depth.
Job seekers' Guide to Resume Databases: Twelve Resume Posting Truths
Criminals and identity thieves are all too interested in getting access to resumes for all the wrong reasons. This article by Pam Dixon has tips to help you minimize your resume risk factors.
Resumes Online: Posting Your Resume
The Internet is wide open and mostly unregulated. Be wary of giving out too much personal information in your online resume or job-bank registration forms. By Alison Doyle this resource has tips on how not to divulge too much.
Scannable Resume Design
Talks about name placement and then has the subcategory 'Scannable' under resume samples.
JobStarCentral - Should You or Shouldn't You? Evaluating Resume Banks
This site takes a look at some of the better known resume banks and compares the kind of resumes accepted, the level of traffic, size, cost and any specialized services.
The Riley Guide: Preparing Your Resume for Emailing or Posting on the Internet
Informative guide explaining the similarities and differences between an online resume and a print resume, with tips on creating resumes in plain text, html, and posting your resume online.
Santa Clara University Career Center - Electronic Resumes
Info on how to create an e-resume, and a sample.
E-Application Etiquette / by John L. Sullivan and Sue Curry Jansen
Electronic resumes produced a number of unanticipated problems for this search committee. Here’s what to do and what to avoid.
Susan Ireland Resumes: Electronic Resume Guide
A guide to creating keywords, posting online, e-mailing, resume scanning, and creating Web resumes.
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Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)
How to Prepare your Curriculum Vitae
CRL Job Hunting
This print resource acts as a workbook for drafting your curriculum vitae.
Preparing the perfect CV: how to make a great impression and get the job you want
This Simmons Ebook goes through how to write a CV, why you need one, and examples.
The Chronicle of Higher Education - The CV Doctor Returns
The CV Doctor provides effective samples of CVs in the social sciences, education, humanities, arts, and sciences.
College Art Association (CAA) Online Career Center
Guideline for curriculum vitae for visual artists, museum professionals, and art historians from the College Art Association.
Writing @ CSU - Introduction to Curriculum Vitae
Step-by-step curriculum vitae writing instructions from Colorado State University's Writing Center.
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Cover Letters
In addition to the following links, you can make an appointment to have a Career Counselor critique your cover letter. The counselors will help you format your letter, arrange the content to your greatest advantage, and even tailor it to a specific job description.
Career Education Center - Letters to Employers Handout
Excellent, to-the-point handout by the CEC staff about what a well-written cover letter, thank-you letter, and letters of acknowledgement can do for you.
Susan Ireland Resumes - Write a Cover Letter
An online library of cover letters and thank you letters from Susan Ireland, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Cover Letter.
Vault - Sample Cover Letters
The basics of the cover letter plus sample cover letters in multiple industries.
Cover Letters that Knock 'em Dead
CRL Resumes/Cover Letters
This print resource outlines four different types of cover letter, walks you through assembling your cover letter, and provides sample cover letters for online, newspaper, and cold job responses in different professions.
Winning Cover Letters
CRL Resumes/Cover Letters
Particularly useful is Chapter 2: Cover Letter Mistakes Hiring Managers Say to Avoid.
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Career Resource Library - Books on Resumes
Click Here to explore some of the different Resume and Cover Letter titles we have in the Simmons Library. (Note: for industry-specific resumes, check out our Career Resources by Major or Fieldpages).
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