Day: August 31, 2022
If anything from COVID-19 is sticking around in the world of recruitment, it’s the virtual interview. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, unless you were interviewing for a position that would require relocation, the virtual interview was quite rare. As a career services professional, I hardly ever spoke with students and graduates about how to prepare for this type of interview. It is now 2022, and the virtual interview is here to stay.
“Do I really need to submit a cover letter? Like, really, do I HAVE to?” “What would happen if I submitted the application without it?” Those are the most common questions I have heard from students about writing cover letters. My personal favorite? “What is a cover letter?” and the response after I explain it, “Who has time to read or write that?!” Trust me, I KNOW. They are time consuming. They are repetitive. They are, well, not fun to write. BUT they ARE necessary.
When was the last time you refreshed and updated your resume? Do you even have a resume? You’re resume, like it or not, is just one method of how an employer formulates their first impression of you, and you want it to be the absolute best representation of you as it can possibly be