Your resumé and cover email or letter highlight your skills, accomplishments, experience, education and training. Their purpose is to make a strong first impression on an employer so that you get asked to an interview.

To make that strong first impression, you’ll need resumés and cover emails or letters that are concise, well-written and targeted to the employer’s requirements:

• Start by collecting your skills, accomplishments and experience on a resumé master
• Decide which type of resumé will market you most effectively
• Tailor your resumé to fit each job
• Master the art of high impact resumé writing
• Know how to format your resumé for an employer
• Write cover emails and letters employers will read
• Provide great references