Resume tips

Education: Highlight your GPA (if it is strong!) or the fact you were on Dean's List or graduated with honors. Demonstrate your leadership skills by highlighting your role in activities in which you were involved.

Jobs: Mention specific responsibilities or accomplishments which show skills you bring to the paralegal job.

Publications: Include a list of your articles, blogs, or books.

Letters of recommendations: Don't! Don't attach them to your resume, don't offer them. Letters of recommendation make us feel great, but they offer little to the person contemplating hiring you. If a perspective employer wants a recommendation he wants to talk with that person by phone to hear her hesitations, her enthusiasm, the nuances in her answers.

Mistakes to avoid: Your cover letter should not look or sound like a mass mailing.

Your email name should not be "Hot Babe" or something similar; open a new account with something more appropriate for the business climate.

Avoid spelling mistakes and typos! Proofread carefully.

In your cover letter, address the fact that you are wildly overqualified or have little or no experience.

Thanks to Alison Green at AskaManager.blogspot.com for these "mistake tipe."