They have enough education to gain various unskilled positions but not enough to get the job they really want. While landing a job or internship is the only way to gain more experience, having a top notch resume and cover letter will get you halfway there.
Know Your Potential Employer
For a cover letter, it is important to really stand out. Drab form letters will only lead you to the reject pile. An employer wants to know what you can offer their company as they already know they can offer you a salary. Showcase your research abilities and attention to detail within the cover letter itself.
DO NOT: As a candidate with strong organizational and computer skills, I would like to work with your software company, Software, Inc.
DO: As a qualified candidate who shares in the belief of creating technologies for the future, I would like to extend my skills to your company, Software, Inc.
This is a small but important difference. In what not to say, you begin with discussing yourself and only mention the company name. This standard form letter format does not show what interests you about the company. In fact, it shows the company that all you know is there name. In what to say, you mention that you have a shared belief in what is specifically in the company mission statement or information from the website. You also state that you would like to extend your skills to them. This gives many employers the sense that you are there to assist them in their needs rather than meet your own.
Include Pertinent Information Only
Unless you have an exceptional experience such as an internship with the White House, do not include it in your cover letter to a pet sitting company. Whoever is reading your cover letter and resume is reading thousands more just like it. Do not lessen your chances by submitting lengthy letters with too much information. Many people feel if they list everything that is related to the position, it will show how qualified they are. The cover letter is a brief overview to provide insight into your experience. The interview itself is the time to go into detail and at length about your experience.
DO NOT: While employed at babysitters' r' us, I cared for children and handled basic nutrition. This relates to handling animals because similar to children, animals need a lot of care. Also, I used to walk neighborhood pets for vacationing families. I was also a volunteer at the anytown ASPCA where I cleaned cages, administered shots and bathed animals.
DO: I have varied experience in animal care, client relations, and basic pet medical care. My experience is as follows:
- Pet walking and clean-up
- Animal nutrition plans and feeding, follow detailed feeding schedules
- Knowledge of rabies shots and administering
- Pet grooming
There are many ways you can organize your experiences but overall, huge block paragraphs in a cover letter are a bad idea. Using bullet points or small groupings of sentences with multiple breaks has proven readability. The importance of breaking up sections is because you do not want important skills to get lost in the whole. In the first example, volunteering at the ASPCA is perhaps the most important position yet it gets lost in ramblings.
Include Skill Summary and Profile in Resumes
With so many resume styles, there is no one perfect format. Even though the style can vary depending on your experience, including a skills summary is a good idea. Since your job experience may not be impressive yet, your summaries will provide the employer a better overview of you as a worker. Reading "McDonald's" as a job is not impressive but if an employer sees "cash handling, customer service, POS System, Franchise Management" in the skills summary, it shows that you are not just a burger flipper.
Similar to the cover letter, an employer does not want to read one full page of writing. Readability is the key. A skills summary is typically place near the top of the resume after the objective section. Many times, skills summaries are coupled with a profile. A profile is a short 4 or 5 sentence summary of yourself.
Profile Example: Motivated & personable professional pursuing college degree with a successful 6-year track record of employment. Diplomatic and tactful with professionals and non-professionals at all levels.
Accustomed to handling sensitive, confidential records. Poised and competent with demonstrated ability to easily transcend cultural differences.
Sets of sentences work best within the profile as they are easy for the eye to scan over. The beginning should typically be bolded as a standout beginning to attract the eye. Full sentences are not required as they take longer to read. This profile gives a good overview of the potential employee as a whole and gives insight of what the employer can expect.
A skills summary should follow this section separated by a line break. The skills summary is simply a summary of all your skills from various positions. It is important to include your best skills. Including something you are unfamiliar with will only backfire when the employer inquires about it and you are not well versed on the topic. A great way to format skills summaries is to have bullet points in 3 separate short columns. This ends up not taking up too much vertical space and introduces your job experience smoothly.
All of these tips in addition to determination should successfully lead to that interview you hoped for. For whichever resume and cover letter style you choose to use, follow up with employers to remind them of your application and get your name heard. A closed mouth is seldom fed.
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