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Career Action Plan, Sample Resumes, and Letters
2 Years To Goal! The Career Management Process is exciting and challenging. An early start can make all the difference in both your success and sanity! To secure a full-time job upon graduation takes 2 years of hard work and determination. So the time to start the job search process is now!
The Career Action Plan (CAP) is an outline of the necessary activities you will need to engage in to secure a job and/or internship. Think of the Career Action Plan as your road map to managing your career as a Zicklin graduate business center. Use this tool on your own, with your peers and with the support and guidance of the Graduate Career Management Center.
This helpful guide includes:
- How to Network, Build Your Brand, Develop a Personal Pitch
- Tips on Creating a Powerful Resume, Cover Letter & Thank You Notes
- Job and Internship Search Tips and Techniques
- Interview Tips, Sample Behavior Based & Direct Questions
- Salary Negotiation Preperation and Resources
- List of Resources, Web Sites and Programs available to Zicklin Students and Alumni
Please click on links to download or view sample documents. The samples are in MS Word format (each less than 35k).
Career Action Plan |
Resumes |  | Cover Letters |
| Resume - Zicklin Format (recommended) | Cover Letter Format | |
| Resume - Chronological | Cover Letter - Internship/FT Position | |
| Resume - Functional | Cover Letter - Networking Meeting Request | |
| Cover Letter Format-Networking | |
Decline Letter | | |
| Decline Letter | Thank You Letters | |
| Thank You Letter - Networking | ||
Follow-up to Rejection | Thank You Letter - Interview | |
| Follow-up to Rejection | ||
Interviewing |
| Interview Do's and Don'ts |
| Behavior-Based Interview Questions |
| Informational Interview Questions |
| Interview Questions for an Employer |