Dragon Ball Z Uncensored

[Magic Juan]

I'm applying for this job, and I need a cover letter and resume. I've never actually had to make one before since I've basically been hired through NEPOTISM, or I made a really good first impression and they told me I didn't have to do one. Can you give me some TIPS and stuff on formatting, also, do I need to provide numbers for references?

[Action Hank]

Even though I'm not Chris/Theldorrin, the answer would be, yes.

[Username]

You can use me as a reference if you need to.

[Matthew Outland]

oh ditto

[Stupid Fucking Faggot]

- Cover letters are more of a common sense thing. You can't really fuck that up as long as you have some basic social graces.

- Don't write a lot of paragraph-y text. Use bullet points with one or two sentences whenever you can.

- Be specific about the DATES of your past work experience. Always give month/year started, month/year ended. Don't go into detail about why you stopped working there though.

- Be as SPECIFIC AS YOU CAN about your skills, especially if the job is in any way technical or relying on particular software or whatever. People who read resumes mostly scan them, and what they're scanning for is buzzwords. If you write a bunch of generalized dick, they'll be like, "whatever."

- Use bold text for important facts and buzzwordy type things. Like, under education, bold your degree and what it was in, if you have a degree. If you know HTML, bold HTML.

- Don't talk about yourself in a personal sense. Don't be like, "durr, my interests are..." Nobody cares.

- No need to give out demographics, like age, marital status, etc.

- Make sure you have a phone number and email address. You can even leave off a physical address if you want, but always have phone and email. That seems obvious, but people leave that off sometimes.

- If you did a specific project-type thing for a job, talk about that and how it improved the company.

Basically the format is:

Personal info
Objective (what kind of job you're looking for)
Skills (BULLETED LIST)
Work Experience (a paragraph or two of what you did at each job, or preferably a bulleted list)
Education
References (this is ALWAYS THE SAME. Just write "References Available on Request".)

[Magic Juan]

The problem is that I'm in Canada and all my references are in the United States, so I know as a fact they wouldn't call.

[Matthew Outland]

Thats a GOOD thing you mop

[Magic Juan]

This is for a very crappy job, so I would probably just talk about being an RA and knowing a lot about McGill.

[Magic Juan]

God, retroactive post counts freak the fuck out of me.

[Clotho]

What kind of job are you applying for, Wand?

[Magic Juan]

I'm going to work at the center for admissions for McGill and shit.

[Stupid Fucking Faggot]

Not with that attitude!

[Magic Juan]

I'll see you in six posts.

[Username]

Austin 315

[Username]

In a few months, nobody will understand the tension between Magic Juan and me, because I'll have defeated him in post to post combat, and these posts won't reflect our bitter struggle.

[Stupid Fucking Faggot]

Seriously, we all have to combine my 666 and your guyses 316s, right here in this thread.

I think maybe we should do 666 in a 316 sandwich.

AND SUMMON A FUCKING DEMON!!!!!!!!!!

[Magic Juan]

*powers up*

[Magic Juan]

Chris, FarNeer, get on AIM

[johnbuisthegreat]

use me as a reference ill tell the world you eat pizza

[Theldorrin]

You don't even need to write the references thing down, because it's automatically assumed that they're available on request.

A lot of advice depends on what type of job you're applying to. Like for tech stuff, you emphasize skills more than if you were doing some other type of work that isn't so buzzword oriented.

And if you're applying to something that would actually be a real job, rather than something that you're doing only for money, then you'll probably want a 2 page resume.