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.
Cover Letters, Thank You Letters, and More: 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.
