This assignment -- along with the next -- takes your journal in a bit more formal direction, not only reviewing your business etiquette, but getting you to begin writing or polishing key job-search correspondence, your critical promotional tools.

Take a spin: Through our Job-Hunting & Business Etiquette Resources.

Take: The Job-Hunting Etiquette Quiz.

React: To your score.

Visit: Cover Letter Resources.

Take a spin: on our Dynamic Cover Letters Tutorial For Developing a Stunningly Effective Cover Letter.

Review: Some Sample Dynamic Cover Letters.

Prepare: A cover letter to to the dean of admissions at a graduate program -- or to one of the employers you identified in an earlier journal. Be sure to follow the cover letter writing guidelines from Quintessential Careers.