Week $7$ Discussion: Constructing a Cover Letter and Resume $($Peer Review$)$

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Reflecting on what you learned in Chapter $17,$ you will be constructing a cover letter and resume for submission. The discussion board assignment details and procedures are listed below.

Visit the LinkedIn job posting site Links to an external site. and select a job posting of your interest.

Compose a persuasive and thoughtful one$-$page cover letter targeted to the job posting you selected. It is recommended that your cover letter highlights a few relevant elements from your resume and should be in a business format.

Create a one to two$-$page resume appropriate for the job you selected. When creating this resume, think of its appearance and the job information included. Determine whether the document you have created represents you at your best. Be sure to utilize proper resume formatting.

Use a career planning process that leverages a self$-$assessment, personal development activities, and a career portfolio as a guide to formulate your resume. Feel free to use the provided Resume Worksheet Download Resume Worksheet to gather and organize resume content. As a reminder, strong actions verbs should be utilized but use caution to not overuse. DO NOT use the resume templates found in Microsoft Word. Some of these templates use bad design principles.

Once complete, combine the following items into one Word document $(.$doc or $.$docx format$)$ and submit it to the discussion board. This is not a standard practice but is being formatted this way for the sole purpose of this discussion