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Review the cover letter and resume information
to determine if the applicant meets the minimum requirements as outlined on the
job description, and has provided the required information. Review the resume to
determine how the strengths and weaknesses compare to the position requirements.
Cover letters should:
- Always accompany a resume
- Be free of errors
- Personalize the candidate to you
- Be neat in appearance
- Express genuine interest in the position
- Describe how past experience would be transferable
to the position
Resume Strengths:
- Specific skills and abilities
- Scope of responsibilities, capabilities,
and accomplishments
- Education, continued learning, and special
training
- Direct, related, and transferable experience
- Care given to growth and progressions
- Continuity of employment and career
- Writing skills
- Job stability
Possible Resume Weaknesses:
- Lacking in related experience
- Job hopping
- Employment gaps
- Lack of career progress
- Lack of education and continued learning
- Lack of specific accomplishments
What information can you get from a resume?
- Ability to think on feed
- Need for direction
- Verbal communication skills
- Maturity level
- Initiative
- Flexibility
- Reason for looking for a new position
- Attitude toward achievement, work and people
- Basic work values
- Career goal and ambitions
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