Tips for Creating a Polished Resume and Cover Letter for Job Applications

My Resume and Cover Letter 

Purpose

Your polished resume and cover letter will serve to market your skills to employers.  

Explanation of tasks

This assignment will be divided into two parts. 

The first part of the assignment asks you conduct an analysis of a job posting, then you will tailor your resume and cover letter to that job posting. 

The second part of this assignment asks you to incorporate feedback to finalize your resume and cover letter. 

Prior to completing the tasks, be sure to review the attached rubrics.

List of Activities

Part One Instructions –Submit to Dropbox

Follow these instructions to submit your materials to the Assignment Submission Folder. All of your materials must be submitted in a single word document.

Module 7: My Job Posting and Job Posting Analysis chart

My Job Posting

Copy and paste your selected posting in the space below.  Using the highlighter, highlight as many key words or phrases that indicate what the employer is looking for.

My Skills and Qualifications Matched to the Job Posting

Using the job posting you selected, paste the responsibilities and qualification requirements into this table, then add your own examples to evidence how your skills and abilities against what the employer is seeking in their new hire. To help you identify your own skills and qualifications, go back to your first assignment and review your experiences.

Module 8: My Work/Volunteer Inventory and My Resume

My Inventory

In module 8, the emphasis was on analyzing job postings to tailor your resume. Now that you are writing your resume, it can be helpful to craft an inventory of your history including work and volunteer experience, and education. This inventory allows you to quickly access the information you need to tailor your resume. Each and every resume you write will be tailored to the job! You’ve already begun to complete the work! In your first assignment you documented your collection of experiences so, you’ve already done much of the work to build the content of your resume.

My Work Experiences

Transfer the information you submitted from your first assignment into the chart below. This time, enter one experience at a time, so that under each position, you can include your accomplishments. Continue to add each experience until you have a full list of all the things you have done

Don’t for get to include all of the activities you have done, including work and volunteer. . Add as many as needed.

My Resume

Be sure to upload a copy of the first draft of your polished resume to the assignments folder.

Module 9: Matching the Job Posting to Your Cover Letter, Writing your Cover Letter Chart

Matching the Job Posting to Your Cover Letter

Using the same job posting you found in module eight, use the table below to pull company information and qualification requirements. Next, fill in the two boxes on the right with specific information to match your cover letter to the job posting.

Writing your Cover Letter—3 paragraph method

Using the template from above, and the details from the sample in the activity, try to craft the three distinct paragraphs of your cover letter.

My Polished Cover letter

Be sure to upload a copy of the first draft of your polished resume to the assignments folder.

My References

Part Two Instructions –Submit to Assignments Folder

Follow these instructions to submit your marketing materials to the Assignment Submission Folder. All of your materials must be submitted in a single word document.

1. Implement feedback to revise and polish your materials further.
2. Copy and paste your finalized cover letter, tailored to the attached job posting
3. The remaining pages will contain your finalized resume.  
4. Name the document using the following convention: last name, first name resume and cover letter. E.g. Smith, John Resume and Cover Letter