Co-operative Education & Career Services: Resumes & Cover Letters

 Your resume and cover letter is often your only opportunity to make a positive first impression to a prospective employer. Your resume is a marketing tool, with you as the product. Its purpose is to spark enough interest in the employer to get you an interview.

A resume prepared with considerable thought and care that represents the skills, experience, training and attitude that you have to offer and is error free is essential to your work search.

Included here is a Resume Template to help you get started in creating a Combination Style resume. Contact us at Co-operative Education & Career Services for more help in building an effective resume and cover letter.

These are just sample formats. Come in to the Co-operative Education & Career Services office to find out if these formats best suit your career field and experience. Depending on your desired profession there may be other formats recommended by the industry.