Résumés and Correspondence Assistance
Try these sites in order to get started with your
résumé, CV, cover letter, or other application correspondence. If you work better from a book,
please contact us, and we will
help you locate resources, including those available from our lending library.
We also provide
review services once you have developed
a draft of your correspondence.
Our Résumé Overview Our own
recommendations.
Our Cover Letter and Thank-You Letter Tips Basic overviews and tips on effective practices.
CV Portal From
JobStar. Links to several guides to writing a CV. Samples and templates are included.
We recommend doing some comparison before writing.
Europass A
set of five documents, including a CV, intended to help job candidates make their skills and qualifications clearly and easily understood
throughout Europe. An initiative of the European Commission.
Résumé-to-CV
and CV-to-Résumé Portal From the Re-Envisioning the PhD Project
of the Pew Charitable Trust.
About.Com's Résumé Section
A wide range of information and tips, including information on writing for
electronic submission.
eRésumés
By Rebecca Smith. Advice on scanning résumés,
web résumés, sending résumés and cover letters
via email, and more.
Résumé Tutor
Maintained by the University of Minnesota.
Résumé
Advice Essays The Wall Street Journal maintains short
essays from experts on the most up-to-date advice on
résumé-writing.
Cover
Letter Advice and Format From Barnard College.
Cover Letter Template
From Virginia Commonwealth University.
Transferable Skills Overview
Quintessential Careers provides
some brief readings on assessing
and articulating your personal history in terms of skills.
Other
Correspondence Virginia Commonwealth University
has a brief overview of other types of job-search correspondence.
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