Are you struggling to write your college graduate student resume and cover letter?
Do you find it difficult because you lack direct work experience or expertise?
Some students have had a career before going to college. Many students don’t know how to identify their relevant strengths, accomplishments, or skills to target a new position.
Congratulate yourself if you graduated with a college degree or certification – what an accomplishment and a relief.
Being a student is a long and bumpy road, and now you’re ready to find your dream job related to your college degree. You’re about to begin the career that incurred a substantial financial investment – now it’s your turn to recoup that money by earning decent wages.
College Graduate Student Job Search Tips
The first step is to submit a focused, job interview-winning resume and cover letter- which is critical to securing an excellent position quickly. If you are looking for tips to improve your resume, you have landed on the right website. We offer an abundance of free resume writing tips.
Over the last 24 years, we have prepared many unique job marketing documents for university or college graduates to begin their job hunt. The cover letter needs to show your personality and passion; we write our client’s cover letter as if you were talking to the reader.
Communicating with the reader the value you can bring us as a new employee will grab attention and land an interview. Learn more about me, Candace, by visiting the homepage of the Canadian Resume Writing Service.
Even when you successfully get an interview, all the work you have done preparing and distributing your resume can be for nothing. If you aren’t prepared for the interview, your hard effort can be lost in 20 minutes. Some interview questions can be brutal.
You could freeze up or ramble, thus reducing your chance of receiving a job offer. We conduct mock interviews with job seekers, asking students and recent graduates many interview questions.
Walking into the interview room and facing the questions is an eye-opener for most job seekers. Many clients have asked us, “They aren’t going to ask me that, are they?” Guess what – 95% of the time, they do.
A job interview question often asked in a college student or graduate job interview is:
“Why do you want to work in this industry and this position?”
Your interview preparation and research should become apparent here. Give one or two reasons why you’re interested in the industry or company and what specifically piqued your interest.
What’s the most exciting personal experience you have had with the company, its services, its products, its company reputation, and the job itself? The interviewer seeks something to prove you know what you are getting into.
Have a Realistic Outlook of the Job
For example, police recruits often respond, “I truly enjoy helping people—it is so rewarding.” This could be a bad response, indicating a total misunderstanding of police work.
Let the interviewer know that you understand the position’s positive and negative aspects. A police officer deals with many difficult people – these encounters are not all “rosy.” There will be challenging situations, and the interviewer wants to know that you are aware of the challenges you will face.
A better answer would be: “I have spent a lot of time thinking about my goals, researching, and determining what I am good at and want out of work, and I have decided that this industry and profession would be best.
I understand being a police officer is not glamorous, and there will be difficult situations to manage each day.”
This response shows that the job seeker has done some serious planning, narrowed their focus, and targeted direction. The answer shows an understanding of the importance of personal career planning and demonstrates an ability to make carefully well-thought-out decisions.
Any college student’s resume written by the Canadian Resume Writing Service will be accomplishment-based and keyword-rich, and it will include a solid profile to intrigue the recipient to read the whole resume.
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