Topic:  Successful Cover Letters, Resumes, & Portfolios

Your primary reason for writing a good cover letter is to generate enough interest for a hiring manager to take the time to read your resume. However, there are concerns when writing a cover letter:
- How many of you have written a cover letter?
- When do you send a cover letter?
- What kind of cover letter works best for you and why?

The main reasons for writing a good resume is to generate enough interest for a hiring manager to invite you for an interview. There again, several factors must be considered:
- Your resume needs to standout and be custom tailored, based on the job description.
- The first 1/3 of the first page of the resume needs to convey the strongest points!
- If the wording in your resume includes keywords there is a better chance that the resume will be accepted.

Secondly, the descriptions of your skills, abilities and experience need to be quantified as much as possible. You also need something as a door opener or leave behind to give to a hiring manager or referral source after they have met you.  You must sell the benefits of your skills!

A portfolio is a visual representation of samples of work that you have performed. A resume describes the highlights of your work history but a portfolio shows and proves what you have done. Portfolios may be used during the interview process (sent in advance of an interview, or used at the end of an interview). They may also accompany a mailed in or electronic resume.

This topic describes the content and various forms of portfolios that may be used as an important part of the job search process. A portfolio can be used to showcase your skills and differentiate yourself from others competing for the same job.

Bring your cover letters, resumes and portfolios with you to this free seminar and get real time feedback!

Speaker:  Sandra Kischuk, Success Coach

Sandra Kischuk has a diverse educational and career background which she draws on today in preparing résumé,cover letters and portfolios. She wrote résumés for Superior Writing Services for two years, and for the past five has written over 1,000 résumés for clients across the United States.
    

A Leadership Coach for MBA students at the University of Tampa, Sandra taught classes at Baywinds. She has been a featured speaker at the Transitioning Professionals of Tampa Bay, Transitioning Professionals of Orlando, Your Career Calling, APICS The Association for Operations Management, Business Network International, the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce, Aston Gardens, the Tampa Writers Alliance, Pasawor, the Florida Writers Association, and the Largo, Clearwater, North St. Petersburg, and Tampa chapters of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 
    

Sandra has an Associate Degree in Interior Design, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, a Master of Science in Management Information Systems, and a Masters Certificate in Project Management. She earned top scholarship in fine arts at Indiana University and did courtroom art for a CBS affiliate, along with technical writing, advertising copy writing, and architectural rendering.
    

She has earned numerous writing awards in the Tampa Writers Alliance annual competition, edits fiction and nonfiction work, and maintains six client and two personal websites. Sandra has had articles about research in the USF College of Engineering published statewide and nationally.

Sandra Kischuk, Success Coach

http://www.SandraKischuk.com

Sandra@YourCareerCalling.org