Resume And Job Letter
The “Resume and Job Letter” assignment was a very useful and practical project. Everyone needs to know how to make a professional resume at one point in their life. I will definitely use Dr. Fricke’s feedback from this assignment to make a better resume to use in the future.
For this project we were supposed to find a job ad in the field of our choice. Our job letter and resume would be a hypothetical practice exercise using the found job listing. However, with the permission of Dr. Fricke, I chose to create a resume and essay that I would send to Cornell as part of my transfer application.
In hindsight, this was a bad choice. Any essay I would send as part of my application would not be a technical document. Essays written are supposed to show personality and tell a story of who we are. This was a bad decision on my behalf. If I could repeat this project, I would chose to use a job ad like what was suggested.
Overall, both my resume and job letter/essay were poorly organized. I think this is because I was unaccustomed to the new writing style. I also think this is because as my first big project in this class I did not allow myself enough time to work on it. In normal English classes, I could wirte a paper fairly quickly. Technical writing is fast as well but, I find the editing process very time consuming. As for the resume, I just did not put forth as much effort as I should have.
