Week 10

This time the lecture was about cover letters and Cvs usage and importance. Before, explaining in details how the Cvs and cover letters work, it is essential to understand their importance. Cvs are the means that one must use when he is applying for a job position, in order to inform his employers about his academic education and his working experience.

The categories of Cvs are these:

• The Chronological Resume: In this type of CV, the applicant writes down his academic knowledge and experience in chronological order starting from the start of his career and ending with his most recent achievements.
• The Functional Resume: If the applicant chooses this type of CV to go with, he depicts his skills as he sees fit, however when it comes to past experience in working environment he goes more in depth and explains it in a more analytical way, same goes for his skills and abilities.
• Combinational Resume: This is probably the most “flexible” type of CV one might pick, since it is a combination of the Chronological Resume and of the Functional Resume.

Besides the categories mentioned above, during the lectures we were given visual examples of Cvs with the usage of powerpoint presentations and some additional tips for writing Cvs. These tips were things like giving emphasis to any accomplishments we had in any previous work instead of just mentioning that we worked there and to be extremely careful to avoid and grammatical or syntactical errors when writing the CV.

During the next part of the lecture we were taught about what the Cover letters are and of their necessity. First of all, a cover letter is important because it allows the applicant to express why he is interested for the specific job position in detail, you can go into details about your strong points and your achievements during the past workplaces, and last but not least, it allows the employer to get a first “look” of your personality and character before the actual interview happens.

This was probably the most important and interesting lecture I had till now, since I was completely unaware of the existence of cover letters until this part (actually covers letters where discussed during the previous lecture but I missed this part due to me being sick). However now I can say for sure, that I have one more asset to add when I apply for a job position in the future.