more job questioning
first off, thank you for all your wonderful resume comments below. with your suggestions i was able to cut my resume down to a page and i think it is, to put it mildly, a LOT better. (though i am still conflicted as to whether i should stick in that agency internship. it is from 1999, but people find it fascinating for some reason, though i basically spent the entire summer a) hooking up with my co-intern b) copying departamental phonebooks).
anyway, i now have a cover letter question. a few sites i've been browsing recommend a newish form of cover letter - basically one tailored exactly to the job description. i mean, duh. but these say that you should create something akin to a table - in one column you would put the job requirements, and in the second corresponding slots you would put why you can handle that specific job requirement. make sense? it *sounds* interesting, and specific, and at least it would maybe catch somebody's eye, but i dunno...maybe too unconventional? what do you think?
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As I now must make sweet love to my cover letter at least several times a day, I can tell you that my standard letter is bedecked with several different colors, each one highlighting text that I must change everytime I send it out to specifically tailor it for each job description. It hasn't yet become an Access driven merge form letter--I call it my Mad Libs Draft--but it is getting there.
That said, it's still formulaic to a fault. Though I've been making major renovations for a handful of specific instances (most often due to the fact that there are certain job I want more than others), it remains pretty much the same letter time and again, with all the blanks filled in differently.
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