To determine how well you are promoting your selling points (your two or three key abilities and two or three key attributes), do the following in this order:

A. Write down your key selling points.

B. Create your résumé and cover letter to highlight these key selling points.

C. Without providing what you believe are your key selling points, ask a trusted classmate/colleague/professor to review your résumé and cover letter. Specifically, ask your peer to answer the following questions:

1. Based on these documents, what do you think my key selling points are? Ask your peer to mention abilities or skills and attributes or traits.

2. Do my key selling points stand out clearly? Do you think my résumé and cover letter provide a consistent message about my selling points?

3. What suggestions do you have for me to improve these documents?

After getting responses from your peer, answer the following questions:

A. What did your peer say were your key selling points? What did your peer say about how well your selling points stood out?

B. How closely aligned were your peer’s observations with what you intended to be your key selling points?

C. Based on your peer’s observations, what modifications should you make to your résumé and cover letter to better highlight your selling points?