This assignment was the first time I had written a professional resume and cover letter applying for a job. I feel like my resume looked quite professional. It was very well organized and had a clean, structured look to it, which I think is very important for trying to impress a potential future employer. I believe I described the experience I have had with impressive and convincing descriptions of what I learned and acquired from the work I did there. I feel like I concluded the right material for my resume, but since this is the first time I have really worked on something like this, I am sure there are things I should revise and reconsider about my wording and information included.
My cover letter was something I struggled with a little more.While my cover letter was quite short, I think it hit all the main points that needed to be brought up. Since my job ad did not have many qualifications besides having experience in writing and news and was quite short to begin with, I was not all the way sure what to include to convince the employer that I had everything it would take to do this job. However, I think I did pretty good for my first try at it. After writing an original draft, I revised it to sound more professional and used a thesaurus to omit some repeated words and replace them with more interesting ones.
It was difficult to decide how much to write about my work and volunteer experience in my cover letter. Of course I wanted to include my experience with The Northern Iowan (which was completely fictional), but what else was appropriate? My other jobs (realistically) did not have anything to do with writing or news, but they did teach me valuable work place skills, which I included in the third paragraph. If there is something I am expecting comments and suggestions about, I would definitely point to that aspect.
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