Extra Credit Assignment: Job Search, Resume, and Cover Letter

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Extra Credit Assignment: Job Search, Resume, and Cover Letter (15 possible points)

This assignment is designed to help you practice your job hunting, resume, and cover letter writing skills. Students are encouraged to locate a health-related job announcement. If you are applying to a health-related graduate program or a professional school, you may tailor this assignment to those applications. The list of web resources below includes health organizations that will help you with locating job opportunities. National professional organizations typically have job banks on their sites. You may also find job listings on employment search engines such as Indeed.com.

Select one job advertisement and tailor your resume and cover letter to its requirements. To receive credit for this assignment, submit the following:

1. A job announcement/advertisement (or description of the grad or professional program) including the source where it was obtained

2. Cover letter tailored to the job posting or program (see Blackboard for example)

· First paragraph: Introduction–who you are

· Second paragraph: how your experiences have given you skills needed for the position

· Third paragraph: Tailoring paragraph–identify something unique about the organization and show how you would be a good fit

3. Resume

Web Resources

· American Association of Medical Colleges http://aamc.org

· American Cancer Society http://cancer.org

· American Hospital Association http://www.aha.org

· American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org

· American Nurses Association https://www.nursingworld.org/

· American Public Health Association http://apha.org

· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov

· Disability Right Education and Defense Fund http://www.dredf.org

· Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation http://www.kff.org/

· National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine http://nccam.nih.gov

· National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov

· National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) http://www.nimh.gov

· The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp

· The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services http://www.cms.hhs.gov

· World Health Organization http://who.int