COED Job Guide: Successful Cover Letter

After the resume, the most important document in your job search will be the cover letter.  These two documents are what employers will base your potential for employment from.  While the resume highlights your experience the cover letter should focus on what you will bring to the company.  Here are a few tips for a successful cover letter:

1. Short and to the point.  As an eager job candidate you probably realize the the cover letter could be the only communication you have with the employer and you want to make sure that they know everything about you.  The problem is that you don’t want to bore them with your life story.  The cover letter should not go beyond one page.  You want to highlight what you will bring to the company but do not go into excessive detail. Read more

Weekly DVD Drop: The Dark Knight

This week’s DVD Drop is a complete no-brainer.  The Dark Knight was one of the most successful summer releases this year and my guess is that pretty much every single one of you went out and saw this movie.  It picks up where Batman Begins ends and allows the audience to watch the continued evolution of Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego Batman. Read more

Weekly DVD Drop: Step Brothers

After the sucess of Talladega Nights, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have teamed up again to star in the comedy Step Brothers.  If you are looking for a good laugh this week then this is the flick to check out.

Ferrell and Reilly play a couple of deadbeats who are thrust together after their parents decide to get married. The pair are faced with an ultimatum to get a job or get thrown out of the house.  After battling each other at the beginning they find they have more in common than they thought (funny how that works out).  The two form an alliance and hilarity ensues. Read more

Weekly DVD Drop: Fred Claus

Since Thanksgiving is Thursday why not gear up for the Holidays this week and check out Vince Vaughn in Fred Claus.  Vaughn brings his hilarious comedic routine to the North Pole as the brother of Santa Claus (Paul Giamatti). While the film is probably predictable in terms of what is going to go on, you know that with Vince Vaughn you are probably going to get some hilarious one-timers and other funny moments. Read more

Weekly DVD Drop: Tropic Thunder

This week’s DVD is Tropic Thunder.  This was one of the most talked about comedies of the summer movie releases but was lost amongst other top name films such as The Dark Knight and Indiana Jones.  The movie features an awesome cast of mega-stars Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. Read more

007 Movies In Order of Greatness: Bond Girl Edition

(click photo to view gallery)

Quantum of Solace, the latest film in the James Bond series staring Daniel Craig and the stunningly sexy Olga Kurylenko, drops in American theaters this Friday. Before everyone straps in for the newest 007 flick lets go back and rank the previous 21 films. Bond films are known worldwide for their action, villains, gadgets, and of course: the sexy Bond girls! Read more

Weekly DVD Drop: Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Well it’s another week and probably a good time to rent something that isn’t a new release.  The most noteworthy release coming out this week appears to be Hellboy II and just like the first Hellboy movie I seemed to miss this one when it was out in theaters (hey, movies cost a lot of money now and I have to be selective).  Read more

Weekly DVD Drop: Get Smart

Get Smart is the latest former TV show to be made into a movie.  In this film, Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is thrust into duty as a secret agent for CONTROL to fight off the evil organization known as CHAOS.  Maxwell is aided by Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway).  The film also stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Alan Arkin. Read more