Communication | Learning & Development
Part 4: Writing Winning CVs and Cover Letters
5 course series
This specialisation will help you develop the English language strategies and communication skills you need to advance in your professional career. Whether you already have a successful career and are looking to move forward, whether you’re looking to change careers, whether you’re starting out in the world of work, or whether you’re coming back into the world of work after some time away – if you believe in working for more than a paycheck, then this specialisation will help you. The core courses cover preparing for a successful job search, including self-research and research of the job market and industries of interest; strengthening your interview skills by recognising what hiring managers are looking for and taking steps to prepare for the types of tough questions today's premier companies use; and preparing a resume, cover letter and supporting business documents. The capstone will allow you to apply the skills you learn in this specialisation to your own job search.
A key benefit of this specialisation is the opportunities you'll have to practice your interviewing skills with other job-seekers from around the world. You’ll give them feedback and they’ll give you feedback. In this process, you’ll gain new insight into what makes a speaker successful and you’ll gain confidence in your English interviewing skills.
Flexible
Start Date
12 Hours
Duration
Achievement
Certification
The University of Maryland
Course Provider
FREE
Prerequisites
None
Basis
Part-Time
Location
Online
Course Fees
FREE
What you'll learn
How can you bring your CV to the top of the pile? How can you present yourself to prospective employers using the language they already speak inside their organisation? This course will give you answers to those questions. You will learn how to convert a boring resume into a dynamic asset statement that conveys your talents in the language that an employer understands.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the real purpose of a CV
- Identify relevant competencies for a position
- Adapt your resumes to Applicant Tracking Systems (resume screening software)
- Write powerful and convincing accomplishment statements using your accomplishments inventory to strategically assemble the most relevant evidence of competency for a specific position
- Use the CV skills tier method to strengthen your CV
- Write summary sections and objective statements aligned to a job position
- Take advantage of web resources to find power language for your CV
- Produce a strong CV in a format that is suitable both to your background and the position you're interested in
- Produce strong cover letters that use A.I.D.A. to help you achieve your career goals
- Produce effective follow-up letters that help you stand out from the competition
There are 4 modules in this course
Course Modules
In this module, you'll learn to how position your resume to a specific marketing purpose, how to align your resume with the specific needs of the hiring organisation, and how to ensure your resume ranks high on the relevancy scales used by top-notch organisations today.
In this module, you will learn how to construct powerful accomplishment statements, how to write effective summary sections and job objectives, how to select action words to present you as a doer and achiever, and how to use two web resources that can help you find powerful language for your resume.
In this module, you'll learn how to select the best resume format to support your experience and career goals. You'll learn how to prepare resumes for electronic submission and for submission to OCR engines. You learn the benefits of using an internal resume in your annual review process, and you'll learn what never to put on a resume.
In this module, you'll how to prepare an effective cover letter and how to use marketing strategies to get you cover letter to work for you. You'll learn how to use similar strategies to write a follow-up letter after interviews.
Course Provider
The University of Maryland, College Park is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's preeminent public research universities. A global leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation, the university is home to more than 40,700 students, 14,000 faculty and staff, and nearly 400,000 alumni all dedicated to the pursuit of Fearless Ideas. Located just outside Washington, D.C., we discover and share new knowledge every day through our renowned research enterprise and programs in academics, the arts and athletics. And we are committed to social entrepreneurship as the nation’s first “Do Good” campus.
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