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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Writing Winning Resumes and Cover Letters by University of Maryland, College Park

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About the Course

How can you bring your resume to the top of the pile? How can you present yourself to prospective employers using the language they already speak inside their organization? This course will give you answers to those questions. You will learn how to convert a boring resume into a dynamic asset statement that conveys your talents in the language that an employer understands. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Identify the real purpose of a resume. 2. Identify relevant competencies for a position. 3. Adapt your resumes to Applicant Tracking Systems (resume screening software). 4. Write powerful and convincing accomplishment statements using your accomplishments inventory to strategically assemble the most relevant evidence of competency for a specific position. 5. Use the resume skills tier method to strengthen your resume. 6. Write summary sections and objective statements aligned to a job position. 7. Take advantage of web resources to find power language for your resume. 8. Produce a strong resume in a format that is suitable both to your background and the position you're interested in. 9. Produce strong cover letters that use A.I.D.A. to help you achieve your career goals. 10. Produce effective follow-up letters that help you stand out from the competition....

Top reviews

GC

Oct 9, 2017

Simplistic, direct and informative. This course helped me refocus my competencies and updated my resume writing strategies. Great examples and resources to utilize.

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Dec 31, 2022

Loved every minute of it. Would surely recommend my friends & family this course. Shoutout to amazing instructor and COURSERA for this platform. 🙏👍👌

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By Katherine Z

Sep 30, 2016

Very helpful insights and great examples!

By Jekaterina

Aug 9, 2017

This course is very helpful. Thank you.

By HAN X

Mar 20, 2019

very useful, thank you very much

By Tya K

Jun 28, 2019

Engaging and very helpful.

By Ray

Oct 11, 2016

Informative and practical.

By Elena M

Dec 24, 2017

Very helpful and accurate

By OKE F F

May 28, 2023

Outstanding Experience

By Costantine E

Nov 21, 2019

Its very good course

By Lan A N

Mar 31, 2020

Extremely helpful !

By Babak M B

Aug 3, 2016

Practical and usefu

By Tanisha

May 2, 2019

good course

By Hao W

Jan 27, 2019

Completed

By weiru.ye

Feb 4, 2017

helpful!!

By Andy T

May 24, 2016

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By Justin C

Mar 20, 2021

Good course to take to refresh your resume skills and/or help revamp your resume completely. BUT, very frustrating having to wait for assignments to be marked by peers. I have been waiting up to 3-4 days for my assignments to be marked and as a result I cancelled my subscription.

By Konstantin Y

Mar 23, 2018

Easyest course of the specializaton. No worth if you miss other courses of the spec.

By Jason L

Aug 23, 2021

His content was good. I liked the way he focused on the point of the resume is to get you the interview. He also did a good job at trying to get you to think about what the employer wants and developing your resume accordingly. The assessments could use improvement. The questions and answers were worded in a confusing manner. And the peer reviews were dependent on having peers available to review your work or having work for you to review, which delayed my progress. For a course like this, there should be straight forward assessments that test your understanding of the content, and I think there is room for improvement here.

By Annette T H

Aug 26, 2017

Lots of good info, but a bit heavy to get through without feeling overwhelmed. Job hunting is an exhausting task in itself, so I was missing some uplifting bite-size elements to keep me motivated to implement the things suggested in this course. The overall feeling of the course was that it's a bit outdated, but the material is useful.

By Fanny G

Jan 9, 2017

basic

By wangpengyu

Feb 12, 2017

not practicle at all.

By sidra z

Jun 1, 2023

First of all let me clear one thing with all my honesty: I came here just to get certificate and little bit know how of resume, BUT the quality content and remarkably shocking strategies forced me to take all lectures. I tried all my best not to miss any single word of this God blessed tutor, sir please keep sharing this talent and valuable knowledge.

Thank you so much sir!

Lastly, I am highly thankful to COURSERA and of course to this TUTOR, for having this available-via financial aid- to person's like me who can't get these valuable lectures due to money barriers.

Thanks again!

By Jawad I M

Jul 10, 2020

It is probably the best course that can take to learn resume and cover letter writing. Being a resume writer I learned that a lot of things I did were wrong. This course provided me with so many tools and information. Thanks to the instructor. A suggestion I have is that to add a section where you explain the CV format used outside the US (for all purposes) and that will cover almost everything regarding resume writing. All in all, I am very satisfied with the content of the course

By Deleted A

Jun 26, 2023

Of all the years of me updating my own resume, I thought I was on the top of my game. This course is reich with information, and basically performs a majority percentage of the work at getting the job. The interview is made easiere because of this course. The presenter, Charles Duquette, was informative and looked the part. Now I have to go shopping and upgrade my vest collection!!

John Ward

By Denise B

Jul 15, 2020

This was a good class. It was more challenging than I expected so I was a little thrown off. However, it is a self-paced class and you are able to re-take quizzes within a certain time period in order to improve your quiz score, but it must be 80% or higher to pass each quiz. The information is very helpful in writing resumes and cover letters according to the job market in today's century.

By Sandra L

Sep 28, 2020

I have been working in the same industry for 25 years when the pandemic struck. This course was exactly what I needed to revamp my resume and start looking for a new career path. It answered all of the questions I had about how to create a modern resume. The guidance on cover letters and notes has reminded me of job search etiquette that I had forgotten.

Thank you