Exercise 2. Read the information about writing resumes. Then write your cover letter of a college student applying for the first full-time job and resume to accompany cover better.

How to write resume:

1. Name, address, home phone, business (or message) phone.

List this information prominently at the top of the page. Be sure to give useful phone numbers; a prospective employer should know where to reach you, day or evening. If you do not wish your present employer to know you are job hunting, ask someone to take messages for you when you are at work.

2. Position objective, as specific and brief a job title as possible.

3. Qualifications in brief: a short summary highlighting your education, experience, and skills to capture the attention of and assure the reader that you can do the job. Elaboration (but not repetition) is included in the body of the resume.

4. Experience summary

5. Educational background (can go before work experience if it is more job-related).

The purpose of this background is to indicate general and specific training for a job. A person who has little or no educational training would omit this item.

COLLEGE NAME, City, State, Degrees, majors, dates. If you received no degree or you are presently attending college, give the number of units completed (or say “degree candidate”), major, date, place.

High school: List if you have not attended college. Add dates and areas of specialty.

6. Personal paragraph

You may wish to include a statement describing personal attitudes toward work that make you a valuable and unique employee.

The type of presentation may be chronological, functional, or a combination of the two.

Chronological

Begin with your most recent job and work backward.

March, 1994 – Present: COMPANY, City, State, Job Title. Add a brief, concise description of what you did.

In this type of resume, you may wish to include a section on community service, military service, or whatever applies.

Functional

The information is arranged by areas of competence, expertise. Or effectiveness, such as public relations, management, organization, program development, sales.

List several key functions that are related to your position objective.

Follow each category with the businesslike action words you’ve collected, such as “planned” and “classified”; then give a summary of the type of thinks you accomplished. You may either list employers and dates at the end or note them on the company’s application form.

Combination of chronological and functional

If this format suits your experience, be sure that special skills relevant to your position objective are highlighted.

 

Chronological resume of a student attending a four-year college

KEVIN DONOVAN

643 Eagle Drive

Dubuque, Iowa 52001

[phone]

JOB OBJECTIVE: Customer Service Management Trainee

QUALIFICATIONS IN BRIEF:

Learn job routine quickly. Possess ability to deal effectively with the public and flexible enough to work alone or in a team effort. Good driving record. Not afraid of hard routine work. Primarily interested in a swing shift to allow time to further my educational goals.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

K-MART, Dubuque, IA

Customer Service/Bagger 1992 to present

Help customers with merchandise, stock shelves in warehouse, maintain appearance of the store, bring carts from parking lot into building, and bag merchandise from checkstands.

DUBUQUE GYMNASTIC ASSOCIATION, Dubuque, IA

Gym Instructor 1991

Sold memberships and equipment, outlines programs for participants, gave tours of the facilities to potential customers and guests, balanced accounts daily, answered phones, and took responsibility for maintaining a smooth operation of the gym facilities, adding a professional tone.

S & S WELDING, East Dubuque, IL 1990

VAN’S FURNITURE AND MATTRESS CO., Dubuque, IA 1989

Warehouse Worker

Moved furniture, paint, and equipment; helped with inventory control; assisted customers in marking proper selections.

EDUCATION:

LORAS COLLEGE, Dubuque, IA

Major: Business/Liberal Arts 1991 to present

DUBUQUE HIGH SCHOOL, Dubuque, IA

College Preparatory 1987-1991

REFENCES: Provided upon request.

 

Cover letters

Some say that well-written cover letter is an excellent door-opener for an interview and acts as a link between you and the employer.

Cover letter of a college student applying for her first full-time job

5401 Monroe Street Mobile, Alabama 36608 April 11,1989   Ms. Jill Jones Director of Marketing PTT Corporation Dogwood, AL 36309   Dear Ms. Jones: As a word processor at Datatime Company last summer, I had occasion to meet with people from PTT. It was your sales representative, Joan Cari, who referred me to you. I was impressed with both your product and your personnel. This June I will receive my bachelor`s degree in marketing and sales from Peachtree University. I would like to be considered for a training position in marketing with eventual sales responsibility at PTT. I am an energetic, enthusiastic person with a commitment to whatever I take on. My involvement in student affairs led me to plan and execute a successful campaign for student body vice-president. As vice-president, I met and negotiated with faculty representatives and members of the board of trustees and hosted visiting guests of the college. My senior project in marketing won departmental recognition, while my 3.2 GPA put me on the dean`s honour list. With these qualifications, I feel that I can make a positive contribution to PTT. I look forward to meeting your campus recruiter, A. J. Lupin, next month explore a marketing trainee position. Sincerely yours, Chris Cross

Exercise 3. If you decide to apply for a job in the western countries, you will probably need to form two documents: a later of interest and a resume. This is way how to do it. Read the letter of interest and a resume and try to write your own documents of the same kind.

a) a letter of interest

Dear Sir or Madame,

I graduated from Kyiv State University in 1985. Now I am finishing my post-graduate studies to defend my candidate thesis this winter. My major subject is called the theory of literature, which includes the study of the history of Ukrainian and foreign literature.

I am interested in working in the Ukrainian department of your University as a teacher of Ukrainian and Ukrainian literature for the school year 1995 – 1996. In high school I gained experience teaching Ukrainian to foreign students. In your department I could assist in the teaching of grammar, conduct a class in Ukrainian conversation or give lectures on Ukrainian literature.

If you are interested, please write me at the above address. I will look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely,

Petrenko I.I.

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b) a resume

EDUCATION Kyiv State University, Philological Faculty, English

Department (1983). Kyiv State University. Postgraduate

course (1990)

EXPERIENCE Kyiv State University. Philological Faculty. I delivered

lectures on European Literature of the 17 –18^th centuries

(Fall 1988 Present). Kyiv State University.

Philological Faculty, Department of Ukrainian language.

Lecturer on Ukrainian Literature of the 19 – 20^th centuries (Fall

1988 – Summer 1994) Kyiv State University. Summer

Courses of Ukrainian language for Foreign

Students. Teacher of Ukrainian Language (Summer

1989, 1990, 1991). Kyiv State University. Department

of English. Teacher of English (1988 - 1994).

ACTIVITIES Intercontact Co-operative Firm. Courses of intensive studies

of foreign languages. Teacher of English. Kyiv State University

Exchange program by Kyiv and eastern Washington

Universities. Tutor of American postgraduates in

Ukrainian conversational skills (Fall 1989– winter 1990).

Private English lessons (Fall 1989 – Present).

PUBLICATIONS I am the author of 6 articles published in different editions

of collections of articles. The topic of these articles is

related to folk and romantic British balladry, the latter

being the subject of my candidate thesis which I am going

to defend this year.

LANGUAGES Ukrainian (native language), English, French.

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Active vocabulary:

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assure	гарантувати, переконувати
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boast	хвалитися
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extracurricular activities	поза навчальна діяльність
face-to-face interview	інтерв’ю віч-на-віч
guidelines	Провідні вказівки
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in reverse order	у зворотному порядку
key functions	основні функції
management	управління
merits	достоїнства(чесноти)
public relations	зв’язки із громадськістю
resume	резюме
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samples	зразки
transcript of academic work	перелік(копія) академічних робіт
valuable	цінний

 

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