Weblog posting #2 Advice-Comments on Jenna

Interview letter

I’m not sure if it works this way in every place, but from what I understand you might want to go to a “higher up” than the human resources. While the human resources department does look at your resume and decide whether to interview you or not, one could cut out “the middle man” and go straight to someone such as a supervisor in the hospital. Of course if you could not get in touch with a supervisor, the human resources head would defiantly be a good person to ask for the “interview.” As far as format and length go, it looks great.

Resumes

Since you already have your GPA on the resume, its redundant to put how you maintain your scholarships, I would think. Simply saying that you have them (and you defiantly put on there you do) should be sufficient information. I say this because most people want to see a short, compacted resume with as much information as possible on only one page. If you took out the extra wording, it could leave more space on the page for you to put more important information. If they really wanted to know how you maintain them, they could simply look at your transcript.

Thank you note

I would suggest when you write the thank you note to thank him for something specific (ie thank you for telling me to take this class or to expand on a specific subject, etc). This way, he knows that you were paying close attention and taking careful notes, showing you were wasting his time.