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Craft application materials that get you noticed. Resumes & Cover Letters offers tips on formatting, writing compelling summaries, tailoring your documents for media and creative roles, and avoiding common mistakes that can land your application in the reject pile.

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How to Write Your First Job Resume: 5 Tips for New Graduates

How to write, customize and work your new resume

The first step in drawing up your new resume is to pick the type of job you are aiming for. You earned your degree and have a world of opportunities. It can be overwhelming to define a career goal. The good news is that you don’t have to choose one industry or one job.

Debra Wheatman

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How to Get Your Resume Noticed in 15 Seconds or Less

You may spend hours (or days) writing and agonizing over your resume, but once it gets in front of a recruiter, HR staffer or hiring manager, each will spend just 15 seconds deciding whether to pass…

Alisha Tillery

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7 Red Flags on Your Resume (And How to Fix Them Fast)

You've been sending out applications left and right and yet there's been nary a nibble. It's not you—you're great. You match all the job requirements (and quite a few of the "nice to have" skills,…

Brittany Taylor

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The Keys to Writing a Cover Letter That Gets You Hired

A resume can be thought of as a summation of your professional life on a page—cold, hard facts about your education; start and end dates of various jobs; lists of software programs you've mastered along…

Dana Robinson

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4 Surefire Ways to Write a Killer Cover Letter

When you’re in media, everything you write, post or create is like an audition. Your Tweets prove you know how to work Twitter. Your website shows you’re not tone-deaf when it comes to branding. And…

Amanda Layman Low