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Resume
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My resume is a single page long document that lists my achievements, education history, and employment history. My resume is the first thing a potential employer will see and needs to make a good first impression. This document is both well written and has good visual design. The most important thing I learned about making the document well written is writing for the proper audience, with resumes you are writing for mainly three different types of people. The first of these people are the engineers that will be your bosses and co-workers, they will look critically at the information contained in your document. In interviews you will have to back up your claims with proof of your knowledge. The second type of people that will read your resume are the human relations people. These people usually weed through resumes without extensive knowledge of the job being applied for separating the "good" resumes from the "bad" resumes. Often times the human relations people are looking for "buzz" words and eliminating people that don't have them. For the human relations people it is important that you list a lot of key experiences, for me and my major it is important that I have listed the software which I have worked with. The final type of people aren't people at all they are computers that quickly search through resumes for keywords. Paper copies of resumes are frequently scanned into computers so they can be easily searched. In order to make the text recognition more accurate you should avoid things like specialized fonts and lots of vertical lines.
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Cover Letter
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My cover letter accompanies my resume, it gives specific examples of my project work that relate to the job that I am trying to attain. In my cover letter I applied what I learned about the organization of cover letters. The first paragraph of a cover letter should tell what the job is you are applying for and a short bit of information about yourself. Then end of the cover letter should reference your attached resume, indicate that the employer can contact you, and give a final statement about why you should be chosen.