Undergraduate Students
Handouts for the Job Search
Help with Preparing for Your Job Search
2008 Tough Job Market:
This handout is filled with tips and suggestions for taking a very active approach to your job search — critical in the kind of tight economy that we are currently experiencing.
Effective Resume Writing: This link will open a pdf file with information about resume writing. Resume writing power point presentation - Start presentation.
Using Action Verbs: This link will open an excel file with action verbs that can help you brainstorm for the right words to use on your job search materials.
Convincing Correspondence: This link will open a pdf file with information about writing cover letters, thank you letters, and job acceptance letters..
Successful Interviewing: This link will open a pdf file that covers tips for a successful interview and introduces you to the STAR technique for answering behavioral-based interview questions.. The following resources are also helpful:
- Successful Interviewing: Provides good advice about interviewing
- Preparing for Interviews: Self-Assessment and Research: This article contains a section that will help you prepare yourself for behavioral-based interviews
- Interviewing power point presentation: Tutorial on interviewing
- An Introduction to Case Interviews
A Guide to Company Visits: Concise introduction to the issues involved with conducting an on-site company visit/interview.
The Job Offer Decision: Introduces you to the issues involved in accepting a job offer and takes you through the process of evaluating what is important to you (benefits? location? training? salary?) as you decide whether to accept a job offer.
Expanding your Resources Beyond Campus & Geographically Targeted Job Search: Depending on your career goals, you may want to explore resources outside of Fisher and OSU or target a specific geographic area. Learn about a variety of techniques and resources to use in your multi-faceted job search.