Specifications for Submitting the Resume and Cover Letter Assignment

07/29/2009

Because it's not easy on me when I receive several (over a hundred sometimes) attachment files in one day, it is imperative that you religiously follow the specifications below. People not following these specifications will be docked one letter grade on this assignment.

• All of your work must be in one file (and not several files within one folder). Do not send me multiple files. This just makes my life difficult in that there are still more files I must account for. Use the page break function on Word to separate your letter from your cover letter and resume from the brief information at the end that describes the job your applying for and includes the relevant url and source code from the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. It is extremely important that you insert a page break in between the three parts of this assignment. I need to see that your resume fills one full page.
• Also, your documents must be in the following order:  1) cover letter, 2) resume, 3) job memo containing the relevant url and source code from the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.
• Name your file in the following way:  yourlastname_resume. For example, Joe Blow would send a file titled blow_resume.  If you have a particularly common last name (i.e. Smith, Jones, Johnson), you may use your first name too. In that case, label your file in the following way: yourlastnameyourfirstname_resume.  For example, Janice Smith would name her file in the following way:  smithjanice_resume.

Following these directions will make it easier for me to manage a large number of files and ensure that your work won't get lost in the shuffle or overwritten by someone else's document with the same file name.