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October 20, 2005
bewilder me once, shame on you
Bewilder me twice, shame on me for paying attention. As a part of my student teaching, I attend a weekly seminar with other student teachers from my program. This week, an envoy from the university's career services office came and gave a not-short-enough presentation to inform us of the services they provide. These two little tidbits were from their presentation:
1. In explaining what he considers to be the best way to write a cover letter, one of the guys said to be "short, concise, and to the point."
2. Following a lengthy explanation of why it's important to be sure there aren't any spelling or grammar errors in either the résumé or cover letter, I began to look through the information packet they handed out. In it was a list of documentation they offer to maintain for students. This list went as follows:
- An updated resumeThat's right. "Currents transcripts." An error that, depending on how it occurred, could be considered either one of spelling or grammar. For the record, the reason to be sure résumés and cover letters don't have spelling or grammatical errors is because it makes you look like a damn moron. I just explained it in one-tenth the time it took this dude.
- Letters of recommendation
- Currents transcripts
Posted by ben at October 20, 2005 4:05 PM
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you bring me much pleasure with the go sox tag :) been too long, let's roll.
Posted by: tom vranas at October 26, 2005 5:11 PM