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WRITING
-RESUME AND
COVER LETTER-
CHARACTERISTIC OF A RESUME
• A resume provides a summary of your
background including your education, work
history, and other qualifications for a job,
admission to a college or university, or a
scholarship grant.
PURPOSE OF RESUME
• It is mainly to interest an employer or a
university official enough to call you for an
interview.
• Using a special resume format to highlight your
skills, experience, and education, especially as
they relate to the position for which you are
applying is highly encouraged.
TYPES OF RESUME
TYPE OVERVIEW ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
CHRONOLOGICAL It lists each job you Highlights stable Employment gaps may
RESUME held in order, starting employment record. be too obvious. Skills
with the most recent. Employers like to see can be hard to see
This type works well job titles, level of unless they are listed
for the person with responsibility, and in the most recent
several years of dates of your work job.
relevant experience. history. It is easy to
prepare.

FUNCTIONAL RESUME Best when you have Lets you to highlight Work has no detailed
too little or too much particular strengths history. It may seem
experience. Focuses and transferable skills to lack depth.
on skills and strengths which may not be Unpopular for most
significant to noticeable when employers. It makes
employers. outlined in them think that you
chronological order. may be trying to
conceal your age,
employment gaps,
lack of appropriate
experience.
 TYPE OVERVIEW ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
COMBINATION Balances the Indicates strong Usually utilizes
RESUME flexibility and employment two sheets or
strength of the record with pages where the
chronological and increasing work history is
functional mobility. Show often on the
resumes. how the skills you employer may not
have used in the read that far.
past apply to the
job you are
seeking.
Highlights
transferable skills.
TARGETED Highly focused Concise, direct, May focus too
RESUME resume intended and easy to read. firmly on one
for specific job; a specific job or
“capsule” of work work. Content
experience may appear
limited.
COVER LETTER
• A cover letter is a document sent with your resume to
provide additional information on your skills and
experience.
• A cover letter typically accompanies each resume you
send out. Employers use cover letters as a way to screen
applicants for available jobs and to determine which
candidates they would like to interview. 
The Different Types of Cover
Letters
• The application letter which responds to a known job
opening.
• The prospecting letter which inquires about possible
positions.
• The networking letter which requests information and
assistance in your job search.