Individual Assignment: Résumé and Cover Letter | Graded
Directions
Assume that you are looking for an internship or a job in your field. You are going to do research to find an appropriate position and write a résumé (chronological or skills) and a cover/application letter that you could use to apply for the position.
Parameters
- Use an online job bank to find a position that you would like to work in. The position must be related to your declared major. Here are a couple of websites that you could use for your research
- Florida Tech Career Services: http://www.fit.edu/career/
- Monster: http://www.monster.com/
- Write a résumé and a cover letter that are tailored to the job listing you found. Remember to apply the guidelines that were covered in this course for writing résumés and cover letters. Try to limit your résumé to a single page, if possible. The descriptions in your experience section should use action verbs and highlight your achievements
- Submit the job listing, your résumé, and your cover letter to your instructor by the due date
- This assignment is due on Sunday by 11:59 p.m. ET
Plagiarism
You are expected to write primarily in your own voice, using paraphrase, summary, and synthesis techniques when integrating information from class and outside sources. Use an author’s exact words only when the language is especially vivid, unique, or needed for technical accuracy. Failure to do so may result in charges of Academic Dishonesty.
Overusing an author’s exact words, such as including block quotations to meet word counts, may lead your readers to conclude that you lack appropriate comprehension of the subject matter or that you are neither an original thinker nor a skillful writer.