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Through the Center, you may avail yourself of individualized career coaching, relevant webinars, helpful tools and materials, and connections with other alums, as well as opportunities to give back to current students and fellow alums.  \nBefore you get started, we’d like to share a few thoughts on approaching resumes and cover letters:  \n• The purpose of this guide is to help you get started in the process of creating a resume and related job search correspondence. This is by no means a stand-alone document: we encourage you to accompany it with a conversation or series of conversations with a Skidmore career counselor.  \n• The samples shared in this guide give you a stylistic flavor of options for resumes and cover letters. Please bear in mind that there is no “one-size-fits-all” resume. Different industries and functions all have their preferences so you will need to tailor your resume and correspondence accordingly.  \n• Writing a resume is an evolutionary process so try to give yourself ample time to create a professional resume. Having materials such as former resumes, performance appraisals, award documentation, transcripts, and so on, close at hand will ease the process.  \n• It’s important to get all of your information on paper, since the first step is to create an inventory of your skills and previous experiences. You can edit and tighten-up the document later. Do not edit as you go or you will risk getting stuck. Also, resist the temptation to make initial value judgments of what to include or not include at this early stage. Just get something down on paper first and then edit the entire resume at a later date.  \n• As you enter your job search / career exploration process, a great entrée to a networking conversation is requesting feedback on your resume, and your contacts will happily weigh-in with opinions and advice.  \nPlease let us hear from you! We would appreciate your feedback and suggestions so the guide can be improved to ensure you are getting the support and encouragement that you need and deserve.  \n1. The hardest part of resume writing is getting started! Build time into your schedule to write your resume and cover letter. These documents will take time to put together; you will have multiple drafts; but once it’s completed you will only need to update it with new information prior to sending it out to employers.  \n2. Create a Very Long List of every professional experience you have ever had in resume format (including volunteer positions) . 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Be sure to use “key words” found in the job description in the event that an Applicant Tracking System “ATS” is used by employers.  \n8. 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