Resume Cover Letter & Interview Guides, Career and Professional Development: Resume Guide: Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law

A well-written resume and cover letter are crucial for an effective job search. The rules for crafting law resumes and cover letters may be different from those used in other professions and for undergraduate work. To draft your law resume, follow the practices and advice in the Drexel Law Resume Guide, below. You may want to use one of the following sample resumes as a template. The Drexel Law Cover Letter Guide, below, offers guidelines for writing the professional cover letter that will get you in the door! You should also have a counselor in the Career and Professional Development office review your resume and cover letter before you send it out for the first time.

	Click the Resume Guide and Cover Letter Guide links below to open them as Microsoft Word files. You can save it to your computer after they have opened. - Drexel Law Resume Guide - Drexel Law Cover Letter Guide - Drexel Law Interview Guide (new as of 01.08.09)

	Click the Drexel Law Resume Templates below to open them in your browser as Microsoft Word documents. You should save them to your computer after they have opened: - 1L Law sample resume template (Word document) - 2L Law sample resume template (Word document) - 2L Law sample resume template #2 (Word dcoument) - 3L Law sample resume template (Word document)
	Career Workshop Presentations:
	- Part 1: 1L Career Workshop - Nov. 18, 2008 (.PDF) - Part 2: 1L Career Workshop - Nov. 25, 2008 (.PDF)