This experience of writing cover letters
and resumes was probably one of my greatest lessons of this class. This sort of writing is completely different
from anything else I have ever written before.
I think the most difficult things for me to learn were the lessons of
what is important and how to write something that is concise.
The
resume is such an interesting piece to write because it is summing up someone’s
lifetime of accomplishments into one page of paper. Obviously, there is more to a person than
what is in their resume, but the resume forces the writer to think about what
is most important about them in the professional world. They need to prioritize what they have done
and what their possible employer absolutely needs
to know. It also forces them to quantify
everything they have done. An ambiguous
statement means nothing, but supplying actual deeds and facts will give the
applicant a better chance at employment.
I
think the hardest thing to do in writing a resume and a cover letter is the
concise nature that these items require.
Both documents really must be only a page long, but they must also
contain so much. The writer is forced to
really consider his words carefully.
Every word needs to be necessary and needs to contribute to
something. No sentence should be able to
be removed without its removal making the work less.
These
two things have made me think about writing so much more. It really forced me to think about every word
choice I made. I also had to organize
all the accomplishments of my college career.
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