Career Services announce resume and cover letter help

by Joshua Labrecque

Career Services will be holding resume and cover letter help every Tuesday and Thursday this semester.

It will be held in the library instruction room and will start at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and 5 p.m. on Thursdays. 

Elan Jackson, who is a graduate assistant for Student Affairs, said, “It allows us to meet with more than one student at the same time who need help with these kinds of things. Some students may not be comfortable meeting one on one so they get help not only from us but from there peers who also need help.”

Jackson said that it gives students the opportunity to have support from other classmates or friends besides Career Services.  He believes students have trouble with resumes and cover letters because they don’t include attributes or experience they don’t believe is valuable that they should include.

Ann N. Goodrich Bazan, director of Career Services, said, “ There are different stages for what you want to have a resume for and what you want to include. Often times it’s teaching them the rules on how to format it or what to include so that employer can see what they are looking for.”

Bazan and Jackson say that they get an average of 10-25 students a day during certain times but sometimes only get three people that walk in a day. They want to help more students.

(Photo:Joshua Labrecque)

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