Cover Letter

MAR 4354 Marketing Yourself Assignment: Cover Letter & Resume

Assignment Description and Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is for students to prepare their resume and a sample cover letter in preparation for their actual job search. This assignment consists of three parts:

• Searching for an appropriate level, career-oriented job advertisement • developing a corresponding cover letter to apply for this position • developing a resume

Assignment Instructions: Find a job announcement from a help-wanted ad in any newspaper or from any online website for a career-appropriate position of interest to you. Write a cover letter based on the class lecture as if you were actually applying for the job in the advertisement. Develop your resume. Make sure that the information provided in the cover letter is consistent with the information on the resume.

Assignment Submission Requirements:

 Job advertisement or Job Description/Posting of the position  Corresponding Cover Letter (as if applying for this job)  Resume

Assignment Grading Parameters: (up to 100 points)

 Completion of submission requirements: o Job ad o Corresponding cover letter o Resume

Cover Letter:  Presentation /how it looks/ professionalism  Content

o Information o Clarity of communication

 Format  Spelling and Grammar

Resume:  Presentation /how it looks/ professionalism  Content  Format – chronology, alignments  Spelling and Grammar

Please note that ANY spelling errors/’typos’ will result in a failing grade.