Just Write It
The first section of a cover letter that includes your contact info and the date?
What is the header/heading?
This type of error (hint: grammar) can instantly get your résumé tossed.
What is a typo?
This section of your résumé lists your past work experience.
What is work history or professional experience?
“In the loop” means:
Informed or updated about something.
Before building an empire with SKIMS and reality TV, she organized closets for celebrities.
Who is Kim Kardashian?
This contains the bulk of the cover letter
This brief section at the top of a résumé describes your skills, goals, and professional character.
What is a professional summary?
Using this font might make your résumé look like a 2002 wedding invitation but is the preferred font style.
What is Times New Roman?
When someone says “Let’s touch base,” they just mean this.
What is “Let’s talk” or “Let’s check in”?
This former U.S. President scooped ice cream at Baskin-Robbins as a teen.
Who is Barack Obama?
The “hook” in your opening paragraph should do this to the reader.
What is grab their attention or show enthusiasm?
Résumés should typically be this many pages long for early-career professionals.
What is one page?
Starting your cover letter with this overused phrase, like “To whom it may concern,” shows a lack of research.
What is failing to address the letter to a specific person?
This weather-related phrase actually means “everything is working well.”
What is “smooth sailing”?
This “Deadpool” actor once worked as a lifeguard and dropped out of college to pursue acting.
Who is Ryan Reynolds?
This is the key difference between a résumé and a cover letter.
What is a cover letter explains why you're a fit, and a résumé shows what you've done?
This method (acronym) helps you structure job stories on your résumé.
What is the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result)?
This is the best file format to submit your résumé unless otherwise stated.
What is PDF?
When someone talks about a “win-win,” they mean this.
What is a solution that benefits both sides?
Before becoming a Marvel superhero and People’s Sexiest Man Alive, this actor used to dress up as a giant chicken at El Pollo Loco.
Who is Brad Pitt?
Including this generic sentence: “I am writing to apply for the job posted online,” is what kind of mistake?
What is being too boring or unoriginal?
This term refers to tailoring your résumé language to match the words used in a job posting so that it passes ATS filters.
What is keyword optimization?
Using this type of design-heavy résumé template might look modern, but can get rejected by ATS software.
What is a résumé with columns, graphics, or tables?
This phrase doesn’t involve food but means doing the important work first.
What is “low-hanging fruit”?
Before leading the Catholic Church, Pope Francis did this job in Buenos Aires.
What is a nightclub bouncer?