Job Search Links: Resumes, Cover Letters and Interviews

This page provides tips for creating resumes and cover letters, and job interviewing.

The Library has a large collection of books, DVDs, and videos on job seeking, resume and cover letter writing, interviewing, and other aspects of job search. This is a small sample of what we carry:

DVDs

Sell Yourself: Successful Job Interviewing -  Renactments of interview situations.

• Call Number: MEDIA 650.144 SELL-Y 1999.

Get that Job -  Preparing for the interview, body language, interview answers and more.

• Call Number: MEDIA 650.14 GET-TH 2002j

Landing a Job in the Trades - Resumes, cover letters, and interviews; what to do and not to do.

• Call Number: MEDIA 690.023 LANDING 2006j

Persuasive English for Job Seekers - Interview and employment vocabulary for intermediate ESL students.  Comes in English and multilingual versions.

• Call Number: MEDIA 428.34 PESUAS 2000Ue ENGLISH

BOOKS

Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions - How to answer the most common and toughest interveiw questions.

• Call Number: 650.144 DELUCA 2010

Essential Phone Interview Handbook - Many employers first interview candidates by phone.  How to ace the phone interview.

• Call Number: 650.144 BAILO 2011

Before and After Resumes : How to Turn a Good Resume into a Great One - Edit your resume to get that job.

• Call Number: 650.142 BURNS-M 2012

Knock 'em Dead Cover Letters : The Strategies and Samples You Need to Get the Job You Want - Excellent sample cover letters.

• Call Number: 650.142 YATE-MA 2010c