Highlight relevant educational background and special skills. List the computer software you know. Refer to any enclosures you are sending. If you have a website with samples of your work, give the address or include a link. Avoid personal objective statements.
Employers know they are boiler plate.
They take up space better devoted to your actual accomplishments. Avoid listing hobbies. For the most part, they aren't relevant. If you are fresh out of school and don't have much work experience, highlight courses and degrees that are relevant to the job, and explain why they are relevant. In your cover letter, do the same, but briefly, and let the employer know how your education will be beneficial to the company, and mention how ready you are to learn the company's way of doing things.