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Helps students with writing resumes, curriculum vitae, and cover letters.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab provides helpful tips, workshops and other resources to help with preparing an application, writing job search letters, creating resumes, video resumes, curriculum vitae (CV), and writing cover letters.

This short video guides viewers through the process of writing cover letters.

Discover the components of a resume.
Explore resume tips, action words, sample resumes.
Create your resume and cover letter with the Resume Builder and Hiration platforms.
Need an expert to read over your résumé? Bring it to an ASU career counselor!

Helpful information aboutn resumes, cover letters, job applications, online applications, portfolios, work samples, and references.

Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides a collection of resources to help with planning, filming, editing, and distributing your video resume.

If you're embarking on a job hunt, there are lots of options open to you as you look for the right way to display your fantastic skills and experience. There are many different styles of résumé (or CV), but why do you need to know how to prepare them? Because every person's career history is different, and you want a résumé that puts your career history in the most marketable and attractive light.

Depending on your career, you may need to prepare curricula vitae (CVs) instead of a resume. The differ somewhat in content and structure.

Many companies today use computers to quickly scan large numbers of résumés into a database. This allows the company to do a keyword search to select only those applicants who fit a particular profile. If you are applying to a technologically oriented company, you should format your résumé to take advantage of this technology.

Put your best qualities on display with professional, customizable resume and CV templates. No matter your line of work or length of professional history, you'll find resume and CV templates that'll help you get the gig.

Learn how to impress with a cover letter. This page includes a cover letter template as a sample to begin writing your own cover letter.

Connects the military community—service members, military spouses, and veterans—with American businesses to create economic opportunity and a strong and diversified workforce.

Very helpful tips to guide you through the interview process.

Includes Interview Guides, Interviews by Job, Question Bank, and Mock Interviews.

This article, written by an experienced Career Coach at Indeed, discusses what to expect during a phone interview and reviews 25 phone interview tips.

This article provides an overview of how to succeed in an interview along with a detailed discussion surrounding each point.

From job interview preparation to the interview thank you letter, the interviewing experts at Monster can help you learn about what to expect, how to prepare, and how to follow up for your interview.

Information about how to get ready for an interview, types of interviews, background checks, thank-you notes, and salary negotiations.