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Writing your CV/resumé (2 pages)
Seven Tips for Effective CV/Resumé Writing: It includes a Reading Comprehension exercise: Which information in this text is useful for you? (scanning for practical matters) and a Writing exercise: Write a letter to a friend informing her/him about this (language functions: giving advice, especially).
Useful Language for Writing CVs/Resumés
Tips for writing your CV or resumé (1): notes from Jobtrak

Template for Job Application letters (cover letters) (1 page)
Useful Language for Writing Job Application Letters

Useful Language in Formal Letters
Useful Language in Letter Writing

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Job Interviews (< The World - People)
Letter-Writing (< Writing)
Reading Comprehension strategies (< How to Learn)
Language Functions - Hedging (< Functional Grammar)
Textual Analysis 02: Overview of types of texts (< Writing)

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Learn about Job Interviews in English-speaking countries (from Society & Culture - Work - Job Interviews): Steps, illegal questions, how to deal with interviews...

What Is a Cover Letter? (OWL)
Preparing to Write a Cover Letter (OWL)
Writing Your Cover Letter (OWL)
Letters concerning Employment (OWL)
Tutoring cover letters (OWL)

Introduction to Resumes (OWL) - see Navigation > Job-Search Writing for more.
Tutoring a resume (OWL)
Academic cover letters (OWL) - which are NOT Business Cover Letters! Scroll down to read theory after skipping the example, which I have added below, anyway.
Sample academic job-application letter (3 pages) (OWL) - with explanatory points
Action Verbs to Describe Skills, Jobs, & Accomplishments in Employment Documents (OWL)
Job Skills Checklist (OWL) - scroll down after the blank page

Examples on Jobtrak. Compare these CVs with the models Spanish publishing houses suggest in their bilingual dictionaries, or with those you’ll find in your word processor. Talk to people about how they design their CVs. See Job-Application Letters