Job Application Documents 
Due 4/24. Counts as 10% of final grade.
Bring 4 copies of rough drafts of your letter to class on 4/17 and 4 copies of your resume to class on 4/19 for mandatory rough draft workshops.

This assignment, as the culmination of the work you have done in WRIT 465, asks you to put together what you have learned about audience focus, persuasion, document design, and editing and persuade an employer to take a chance on you. To do this, you will create two documents and xerox a third:

1. A cover letter applying for a particular job or internship
2. A resume to accompany the letter
3. A copy of the ad for the job or internship (if there is no written ad, then write me a brief paragraph describing the job and employer)

These documents should be prepared in the most meticulous fashion possible and presented on the quality of paper you intend to use for your job documents. If you are going to submit your resume electronically, please see me for additional guidelines on creating an electronic or scannable resume.

I will be providing you with a number of handouts and samples, but I advise you not to copy them slavishly. Rather, adapt them to fit your personality, your style, and the kind(s) of jobs for which you are applying. I also recommend that you focus very carefully on the editing, since a single mistake on a resume or job letter may get you Acut@ from an applicant pool. Therefore,

• If there is one grammatical or editing mistake on the letter or resume, the highest grade you can receive is a AC@.
• If there are two grammatical or editing mistakes on the letter or resume, the highest grade you can receive is a AD@.
• If there are more than two grammatical or editing mistakes.....well, you get the picture.

Your completed job package is due as scheduled on the syllabus. Please note the days where you are required to bring in rough drafts of your letter and resume (5 copies of each on regular paper) so that we can have peer review critiques.

WHAT JOBS SHOULD YOU APPLY FOR?

Choose from one of these options

• a job you are currently seeking
• an internship you want for next semester or summer
• a job that you could qualify for as soon as you graduate
• a job you found in your fantasy search on the Internet
• one of the jobs in the ad that follows

If you do not have a job or internship for which you wish to apply, you should apply for one of the following jobs. The ad appeared in USA Today on April 11, 2001. Deadline for applications is April 24, 2000.

A Career Abroad

Our clients are business and service organizations looking for exceptional professionals to fill a limited number of entry-level positions abroad. Our clients represent a variety of fields: marketing, foreign affairs, the arts, education, technology, health care, public relations, human resources, and banking. All these positions require the ability to represent effectively the employer’s interests in a foreign culture. The qualified applicant must

•Be willing to learn at least one foreign language
•Have a demonstrated appreciation for foreign cultures
•Have a college degree or at least one year’s experience in a professional field
•Possess first-rate communications skills, both written and oral
•Have basic computer competency

Applicants should submit a resume and letter detailing how their experience and credentials qualify them for the position sought. Send these documents by April 24, 2001, to

Foster, Peabody Associates
P.O. Box 5027, FDR Station
New York, New York 10150-5027