How to Create a Resume and Cover Letter
Resume Tips
- Use clear, easy-to-read formatting with heading and contact information
- Include education information that highlights achievement (GPA, honors) and pertains to skills and capabilities
- Make sure each line demonstrates your value proposition
- Describe experiences organized from most recent to least recent, while trying to position the most important or most relevant ones higher on the page
- Highlight specific actions that show leadership ability, professional/technical skills, etc.- and quantify whenever possible
- Describe impact and achievement, not companies or organizations
- Showcase any other relevant skills, honors, activities, interests (if appropriate)
Check out Jobscan to see how your resume compares to the jobs you are applying to
Cover Letter Tips
- Demonstrate targeted interest and industry knowledge/awareness
- Show a good understanding of the job description (use keywords in the cover letter)
- Highlight how you would be a great fit for the job with relevant examples spaecific to the position
- Describe your clear value proposition, with the most relevant skills and capabilities backed up by specific action-driven experience
- Use professional, formal language with a confident tone
Need a Resume or Cover Letter Template?
View editable resume and cover letter templates and resources here.
Manage Your Job Search
- Target 20-30 job/internship applications per week
- Create alerts (job title with “entry-level”, “associate”, “junior”, “recent grad”, “engineering intern”, “summer 2021 intern” and any other relevant keywords)
- Search by location and career level to filter out irrelevant positions
- Review recent grad placement outcomes here for more information about relevant titles and companies for each NYU Tandon major to help find additional keywords to search for
- Check out this guide to setting up job search alerts on Google and LinkedIn
- Use this company directory to search for opportunities in industries you are interested in
- Also, consider Clutch.co for reviews of the work done by various companies across multiple industries to help build out a target company list
Additional Job Sites and Resources Include:
- Handshake
- Indeed
- Ziprecruiter
- Google job search
- Built In
- Uncubed
- Angel List
- RippleMatch
- WayUp
Keep a spreadsheet of the positions you apply to include the date, company, and job title, link to the position, and the status of your application.