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Peer Introduction Exercise: Cover Letter and Resume Review

Practice oral presentation skills by exchanging and reviewing cover letters and resumes with a peer. Learn to introduce your peer effectively by highlighting their relevant qualifications and unique features. Also, work together to improve each other's cover letters and resumes based on expert guidelines.

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Peer Introduction Exercise: Cover Letter and Resume Review

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  1. A: Peer Introduction Exercise • Choose a peer you would like to practice your oral presentation with • Exchange resumes & cover letters • Read peer’s cover letter • Read peer’s resume • Introduce peer to people at your table/class

  2. First Read Peer’s Cover Letter • Make notes of relevant points for introduction to people at table • Make notes/suggestions on letter to improve it based on Aamodt & Raynes p. 287-290

  3. Writing Cover Letters • Salutation • direct to a particular person • avoid Sir or Madam • Paragraphs • for what job am I applying • why am I qualified • why your organization • how to reach me • Signature

  4. After reading cover letter, read peer’s resume • If resume describes relevant features not described in cover letter, add to your notes for introducing peer • Suggest to peer to add these features into cover letter • Make notes/suggestions on resume to improve it based on Aamodt & Raynes p. 283-287

  5. Is the Peer Resume of Relevant Type? • Chronological • Functional • Psychological

  6. Rules for Writing Resumes • Resumes must be physically appealing • The resume cannot contain typing, spelling, or grammatical errors • Resumes should make the applicant look as good as possible - without lying

  7. Criteria to evaluate Psychological Resume • Does Summary Section take advantage of • Priming? • Primacy? • Short Term Memory Limits? • Does 2nd section of resume include info that is • Relevant? • Unusual? • Positive? • Of positive, does it list only a few GREAT things? (Anderson, 65)

  8. A: Peer Introduction Exercise • Choose a peer you would like to practice your oral presentation with • Exchange resumes & cover letters • Read peer’s cover letter • Read peer’s resume • Introduce peer to people at your table

  9. When introducing peer..I • Have a key point which will be reinforced in the body of your introduction • Priming • Cite their best feature first • Primacy • Limit the pieces of information • Short Term Memory Limits

  10. When introducing peer…II • Cite only relevant features that will reinforce the key point • Relevant • Mention anything unusual that makes them unique but still adds to their ‘key’ feature • Unusual • Only mention a few positive things • Positive

  11. B: Working with peer • Read the oral presentation material assigned to you • Identify to peer what you think you should focus on for your oral presentation slides • Use criteria of ‘difficult to understand’ • Identify the type of explanation you should use for the material you will present

  12. Read assigned material Focus on one aspect Classify the aspect Is it a idea that is hard to believe? Is it a process? Is it a concept? Identify invalid assumptions of implicit theory etc. Examples, counter examples etc. Model to explain processes or parts

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