Assignment feedback cover letter and resume
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Cover Letter
- No Yellow Highlighting - to indicate differences between final version and Assignment
- Not following directions - to combine cover letter and resume into a single (1) document; and then also attach job posting as a PDF separately
- Not attaching Job Posting
- Putting Name & Address in the Header - Your Address info goes in the bottom of the cover letter\
- Addressing the Cover Letter to YOU - not the person!
- No title of the person OR Company name
- Not using the template provided.
Resume
- Not enough specificity / detail about the job and your experience
- Grammar problems - verb tense - needs to be in the past tense - COMPLETED, CONDUCTED, SUPERVISED
- Sentence Construction - often too wordy, rambling - needs to be CLEAR AND CONCISE
- Don't hide behind words / bury your experience and talents
- Not having attention to details (i.e., hyphens, capitalizing headings, periods after sentences)
- Skills & Certifications - Indicate Level - expert, intermediate, beginner (1-10, where 10 is highest
- Languages - English, Chinese (Mandarin) - expert, intermediate, beginner
- References - Available upon request
