Job Hunting in the US - Resume and Cover Letters

If you are job hunting in the United States, and yes I am, then you are going through the age old dilemma of how to write an effective cover letter and resume.

Here are some sites I found that may help. I think they are helping me and I wished I'd read them before I sent out the cover letters and resumes I've already sent out.

Writing a Cover Letter

and this site:

Resume Writing

I hope they are as helpful to you as they have been to me.

Good Hunting.

MR

Hey MR, first of all good luck with the hunt.

I guess that it depend on how the local economy is affected by the recession, but from here it looks like every job sector has a shortage of employees. I've heard that the recession is hitting the US much harder than up here in Canada, so maybe what I see doesn't match your reality.

The resumes in the academic world are so boring: they are nothing more than a shopping list of publications and grants. Trying to do anything else is usually a sign that the author is trying to hide something. I would agree with the cover letter piece: it makes the difference between a thoughtful applicant and someone spamming lots of employers with his/her CV.

There is only one way: VOTE accordingly to what your experience tells you... 

Rattler

What's so hard to understand about the way the military doesn't work.

It's that way in all armies no matter the nationality.

Good Hunting.

MR

MR,
  Good luck in your search.  Everybody is getting laid off in the Pacific Northwest.  Boeing just announced several hundred layoffs.  What are you hoping for, something history related?  Just curious.

Stoffel,
  Yeah, why would it make sense to hire a guy that already knew the job and had military experience as well.  Sorry that one didn't work out for you.  That ridiculous excuse of only having people who don't have a job apply, is really short-thinking.  If you got the job, then someone without a job could apply for YOUR job.  Managers.

  The Dilbert cartoon in some of the newspapers really says it all.  It is downright uncanny sometimes how that cartoonist can hit the issue right dead on, over and over again. 

  The cartoon the other day....
Dilbert is complaining to his live-in dog friend.  He says, "Today I got in trouble for not doing something that I wasn't aware needed to be done.  Yesterday I got in trouble for doing something that no one asked me to do, but needed to be done.  Tomorrow I plan to sit in my cubicle like a frozen you-know-what and avoid all human contact."  The dog asks, "Does it rhyme with bird?"

                 Heinrich505

Jobs seem to be picking up in the US. They are in our area at least.

I have a really good job for the first time in over 4 years.

Good Hunting.

MR

Animo and godspeed!

Rattler