Résumé and Cover Résumé and Cover Letter Goodness!Letter Goodness!FeracoFeraco

Myth to Science Fiction + SDAIEMyth to Science Fiction + SDAIE

24 February 201524 February 2015

What’s the Point?What’s the Point? QualificationsQualifications Personal History (Connection / Personal History (Connection /

Fit)Fit) Goals (Definition)Goals (Definition) Lots of Competition Lots of Competition

(Distinctiveness)(Distinctiveness) Track Record (Confidence)Track Record (Confidence) Skills (The Balanced Life)Skills (The Balanced Life) Land a Job!Land a Job!

How Do We Do This?How Do We Do This? I am awesome.I am awesome. You are awesome.You are awesome. You will be more awesome if you hire You will be more awesome if you hire

me.me. Let’s be awesome together!Let’s be awesome together!

I Am AwesomeI Am Awesome What do I offer you?What do I offer you? What sort of personal connection do What sort of personal connection do

I have with your firm or your work?I have with your firm or your work? What separates me from other What separates me from other

deserving candidates?deserving candidates? Why am I interested in doing this?Why am I interested in doing this? What is my ultimate goal?What is my ultimate goal?

You Are AwesomeYou Are Awesome Why apply to this company? (…as Why apply to this company? (…as

opposed to all of the others)opposed to all of the others) What about this line of work stands What about this line of work stands

out / seems important / appeals to out / seems important / appeals to you?you?

What should you recognize about the What should you recognize about the job and what will be asked of you job and what will be asked of you going in?going in?

Notice there’s bleed-over between Notice there’s bleed-over between the sections…the sections…

You Will Be More Awesome If You Will Be More Awesome If You Hire MeYou Hire Me What specific things will we What specific things will we

accomplish together?accomplish together? What are my specific goals?What are my specific goals? What are the company’s goals?What are the company’s goals? What are my ideas regarding the What are my ideas regarding the

future?future? We will be awesome together!We will be awesome together!