14 Mar The Importance of an Effective Cover Letter and Resume

Order Instructions

The purpose of this assignment is to conduct research on potential job opportunities in your desired career field and determine the importance of tailoring a resume and cover letter for that specific job position.

On average a resume and cover letter have less than 10 seconds to make an impression and provide an opportunity for the applicant to move on to the interviewing process. Therefore, securing employment often hinges on creating an effective resume and cover letter that align with the required job skills and experience.

Conduct research on a minimum of two potential job positions within your desired career field (Please keep it to california jobs), (I am a Special Ed teacher that wants to own and operate a respite care center for people with special needs). Reflect in 250-500 words on the following questions regarding the specific organizations as well as the skills, knowledge, and experience needed to obtain these positions.

Provide a brief introduction of your desired career field.

Provide an overview of each organization and the specific position you are applying to. You are required to include the name of the company and the company’s website, social media handles, and approximate number of employees.

Describe two or three facts about the company that are interesting to you and explain why you would want to work for this company in the future.

Describe the knowledge, skills, and experience required by the job positions selected. What knowledge, skills, experiences, or other opportunities do you need to obtain in order to be eligible for these job positions?

Explain the significance of drawing connections between the requirements listed in the job descriptions and your resume and cover letter, relevant to your career field. Determine how you would make those connections within your resume and cover letter to ultimately gain the hiring manager’s attention.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. RUBRIC BELOW:

Discussion introducing desired career field is thorough and contains substantial supporting details.

Overview of the organization and specific job position, including the name of the company, their website, social media handles, and approximate number of employees, is thorough and contains substantial supporting details.

Description of the company facts that are interesting to the prospective job applicant, including an explanation of why they want to work for the company, is thorough and contains substantial supporting details.

Description of the main knowledge, skills, and experience required by the job position, including what the student will need to do to obtain these types of positions in the future, is thorough and contains substantial supporting details.

Explanation of the significance of drawing connections between the job description and a resume´ and cover letter, including the relevance to the specific career field and an explanation of how those connections will be made to gain the hiring managers attention, is thorough and contains substantial supporting details.

The thesis, position, or purpose is clearly communicated throughout and clearly directed to a specific audience.

The thesis, position, or purpose is logically advanced throughout. The progression of ideas is coherent and unified. A clear and logical conclusion aligns to the development of the purpose.

Specific and appropriate evidence is included. Relevant perspectives of others are clearly considered.

No mechanical errors are present. Appropriate language choice and sentence structure are used throughout.

No errors in formatting or documentation are present.

***Please see all order prior to this for this class so you can use that information to complete this assignment to the best of your ability:

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You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.