Cover letter and resume

Submitted by cligon on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 20:43.
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Here is my resume and cover letter. Please dont be afraid to critique it. Thanks!

a few comments

Submitted by farmerjohn410 on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 22:02.

When I took a look at your resume and cover letter, and I thought they looked good. The resume looked professional and clean, all organized and easy to read. I have seen some that had too much color and I felt that they didn’t look very professional. I have also seen some that were not very organized and that made them hard to read. One thing that I noticed was that in objective section you listed that you were looking for a summer internship, and I was curious if this was an internship or a full time job you were applying for. I also like your cover letter. I had a lot of trouble with my cover letter, but your cover letter gave me a lot of ways that I can improve mine. One thing I do see is that you say you were an hourly kitchen manager. I assume that you were a manager that was paid by the hour. If that is the case maybe leave out the hourly part otherwise you might want to explain this more as it confused me a little bit when I first read it. Other than that I think that the cover letter was very informative and professional without repeating too much if the information found on the resume. Overall a very well put together resume and cover letter that should help you get the next job that you apply for.

Nicely Done

Submitted by Purdue_ME on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 23:45.

I think that your resume and cover letter were done nicely. In your resume, your contact information is easy to find and read. That is something I needed to change in my personal resume. One thing that I would change in your resume is your graduation date. You have Dec. 2009 to the side, but you do not specify what it is for. I was assuming your graduation date, but I might make that more concise like your high school graduation date. If you are using it for a space saver, then I would probably change your high school one the same way so it matches up. For your Caterpillar internship, I would change it to 2008-Present, instead of just leaving it blank. I also was slightly confused on the hourly kitchen manager part. I am sure you know exactly what you are taking about and you think it should be understood but for people who have not worked in a kitchen, it seems out of place. I would just drop the "hourly or key hourly" part. As for your cover letter, it seemed nicely done. You need to change "and Purdue" in your first paragraph to "at Purdue." You don't want to start off with a spelling error. That will hurt you in this project and in the real world. I would also change "These mini projects we worked on gave us.." in the second paragraph to "These mini projects I worked on gave me..." to make it sound more personal and to highlight you. Other than that, you closed out the cover letter nicely by inserting your contact information again and thanking them for their time. Nice job.