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Application Workshop: English 0750 February 2009

This document provides guidance for a job application workshop. It lists the necessary materials including a job posting, resume draft, and cover letter draft. It then provides instructions for brainstorming the applicant's relevant skills, experience, and qualifications for the job. Finally, it offers tips for planning and drafting the resume and cover letter, including emphasizing the applicant's strongest qualifications and customizing each document to the specific job.

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Application Workshop: English 0750 February 2009

This document provides guidance for a job application workshop. It lists the necessary materials including a job posting, resume draft, and cover letter draft. It then provides instructions for brainstorming the applicant's relevant skills, experience, and qualifications for the job. Finally, it offers tips for planning and drafting the resume and cover letter, including emphasizing the applicant's strongest qualifications and customizing each document to the specific job.

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Roy Turner
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Application Workshop

English 0750
February 2009
Materials
• Job posting/description
• Brainstorming materials
▫ Your skills, experience, background
▫ Career goals
▫ Employer’s needs
• Drafted résumé and cover letter
Brainstorming—You as Applicant
• Describe the job you are applying for.
• What is the most important skill or trait needed
for this job?
• What is the single most important skill or trait
you bring to this job?
• What is the most significant hole in your
qualifications for this job?
Planning & Drafting—Résumé
• Take your main strength as an applicant and
place it high on the résumé
• Repeat with the next most important aspect of
your qualifications
• For each section on your résumé list the details
of your skills, work experience, education, etc.
• Experiment with various formats and layouts for
your résumé
Planning & Drafting—Cover Letter
• Read over your résumé and identify one aspect
of your experience or education you want to
discuss in the letter
• Write a paragraph discussing that element of
your qualifications
• Write an introduction and conclusion ot your
letter

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