Apply/Interview
Section Overview
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Résumés
Effective résumés
- What is the purpose of a résumé
- What do employers want?
- Major sections of a résumé
- Writing effective bullet points for a résumé
- Highlighting international experience
- Action verbs
- Résumé styles and templates
- Sample experience headings
- Proofreading résumés
- Steps to building a great résumé with little to no work experience
- Steps to building a great résumé with work experience
- Steps to building a great résumé to transition from academia to industry
Résumé activity
Cover letters
Academic applications and interviews
Digital portfolio
Interviews
- Purpose of an interview
- First impressions
- Preparing for the interview
- Answering interview questions
- Tricky situations
- Your rights in the interview
- Verbal and non-verbal communication
- Questions you can ask
- Interview Formats
- Approaches to interviewing
- Ending the interview
- Thank-you letters
- Interview evaluation
- Getting ready for an interview
- Practising interview responses