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Good Will Riker · Joined: 25 Dec 2009 Location: South Korea

I'll re-ask this same question in another thread; take 2.

Good Will Riker · Joined: 25 Dec 2009 Location: South Korea

I'll re-ask this same question in another thread; take 2.

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

As this is an education oriented board, I wouldn't be too optimistic when asking others to do your homework for you. As soon as I saw, 'I need...,' and, 'I would like to see...,' I was turned off.

Writing a good cover letter is a highly personalized process, or at least it should be if you want it to have an impact.

For what type of job are you planning to apply? You could separate your work experience into teaching and non-teaching.

You'll want to look at the strengths your potential employer is seeking and then craft a cover letter that links critical abilities you gained from your past work experience, inclusive of teaching abroad, to those requisite strengths.

Seriously, though, if you're not up for this relatively simple task, are you really ready to offer an employer anything of substance in a competitive work force?

Best of luck to you. Sounds like more of a confidence problem than anything else. Do your own work and improve from the experience.

Good Will Riker · Joined: 25 Dec 2009 Location: South Korea

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

I've lived overseas for going on 25 years. Not a Gyopo. I speak Korean exclusively at home and at work, save for the limited amount of teaching I do. About the only time I speak English is when I meet the guys at the pub a couple of times a month, and during infrequent phone calls to family.

Come on. You're talking about writing up a resume and a cover letter, and you're a native English speaking individual with a BA.

It is always a great idea to have someone look over the work YOU HAVE PRODUCED. Your OP, however, asked for volunteers to write you a basic outline and even a sample. That's pushing it.

As long as we're at it, though, here's a tip: Don't use quotations when you write, particularly if you're writing about your own experiences, as it detracts from your message. The same goes for parentheses and brackets.

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

...and where did I mention working in Seoul or getting a Ph.D.? Where did THAT come from lol...?

Good Will Riker · Joined: 25 Dec 2009 Location: South Korea

Yeah, you do seem like the type who spends his time in pubs.

I'll re-ask this same question in another thread; take 2.

Chaucer · Joined: 20 Oct 2009

Perhaps consider Samuel Johnson and amend your offer:

203. Writing
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."
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Good Will Riker · Joined: 25 Dec 2009 Location: South Korea

Well, that is why no girl's been named "Charity" ever since Dick Nixon set foot in the Oval Office.

Next time: Don't be a Dick, like Dick Nixon.

Not you "nice folks" reading all this, just to all the Little Dicks in here.
Laughing

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

OP's reading skills are evidently as challenged as his or her writing skills lol. I mention that I meet the gents at a pub A COUPLE OF TIMES A MONTH, and he delivers a juvenile attempt at a put down? Somehow, the OP also construed that mentioned working in Seoul or getting a Ph.D. That came straight out of thin air.

And this after I offered constructive advice? Learn to look at yourself from the perspective of a potential employer.

Alas, good luck trying to to find people to do your work for you. I'm sure you'll one day become a valued employee at a Fortune 500 firm. I'm done with this one.

trueblue · Joined: 15 Jun 2014 Location: In between the lines

Is this thread really happening?

JohnML · Joined: 05 Jul 2015

This entirely depends on what you're doing interviews for. If you are looking into teaching or something loosely related then by all means list all your experience over those years in Korea, if it's anything unrelated people won't want to know much about it other than in your introduction/overview. Really, talk to an expert.