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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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