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Once you have logged into your SPC student Optimal Resume account, this is the screen
you should see. If you do not, click Document Center in the toolbar. To create a new letter,
go to the Letters section and click Create New Letter. Again, when naming this letter,
it is smart to identify yourself so that an employer can know who the letter is from before
opening it. If you already have a letter that has been edited by an SPC Career Services
professional, you can click Upload Letter and upload it here. We are going to start
a new letter by clicking Start Letter here. As in the resume section, you can Browse Samples,
Browse Letter Types or Start from Scratch. Since we Browsed Samples in the Resume section,
we will Browse Letter Types here. If the employer is requiring a cover letter with your resume
to apply to a specific position, you could click Specific Job Response. As you can see
here, there are different letter types. If you click Specific Job Response, it tells
you that this is what you would do if are applying to a specific job. This is the type
of letter you would use. Click Select. As with the Resume section, when you click on
a category, you can enter your information instead of what is already on the page. As
you can see here, when you completed your student information, the information in your
profile is already going to be adhered to any documents you create. If you didn’t
properly create that or if you didn’t use uppercase letters, you might want to go into
your profile and change that. That is why this information is already being shown. As
you enter the appropriate information, you want to save each section. And as you can
see, there are Remove and Cancel options as well. Here as with the resumes, under Documents
you can edit your document and under Tools, there are helpful different options you can
click on.