During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary memo of today’s reading: “Employment Interviewing,” http://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2000/Summer/art02.pdf. Specifically, what are some of the strategies it suggests for successful interviews? What kinds of situations and types of interviews might you encounter? How do you prepare differently for each?

During the first ten minutes of class today, let’s continue your regular summary memo practice and test what you recall from the assigned reading for today. Write a summary memo, save it, and copy-and-paste it into a comment to this blog post. Today’s reading is “Resumes, Applications, and Cover Letters,” http://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2009/summer/art03.pdf. A guiding principle to consider when writing summaries of these readings is to also mention how it relates to the other readings.

During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary memo (including the memo header) of today’s assigned reading: “Focused Job Seeking,” http://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2011/spring/art01.pdf. What are the main points that someone should take away from this reading? What are some of the best strategies suggested by the article for a focused job search? Remember to save your work elsewhere and then copy-and-paste it into a comment to this blog post.

For today’s class, you read the second half of chapter 2 from Paul Anderson’s Technical Communication. Write a summary memo of some of the important take-aways from the reading and post them here as a comment to this blog post. You will have the first ten minutes of class to work on this. Remember to save your work elsewhere before copy-and-pasting it into a comment to this blog post.

For today’s class, you read the first half of chapter 2 from Paul Anderson’s Technical Communication. Write a summary memo of some of the important take-aways from the reading and post them here as a comment to this blog post. You will have the first ten minutes of class to work on this.

During the first ten minutes of class, write about your job, internship, and volunteering experiences. How did you go about seeking these experiences before? Where have you worked/volunteered and what kinds of work did you do? Did you learn new skills during these experiences? Are there specific businesses, organizations, or government where you would like to work in the future? If you know or have talked with people in those jobs or similar jobs, what kinds of things have they told you to do in order to prepare/apply for those jobs?

Remember to compose your response as a memo. It should have a heading block at the top that includes separate lines for TO, FROM, DATE, SUBJECT. Beneath the heading block, you write your response. You can find an example here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/590/04/

During the ten minutes set aside for our beginning of class writing today, write a memo introducing yourself to your professor. In your introduction, tell me about yourself and include this information at a minimum: your major, the career you seek, your other interests (clubs, hobbies, activities, etc.), and what you want to get out of our class.

First, I would like you to type your work in Google Docs, which we will make sure everyone has access to before beginning the assignment. Also, you will be posting a copy of your work here on OpenLab, so we will spend a few minutes making sure everyone in the class has joined.

Second, how should a memo generally look? It should have a heading block at the top that includes separate lines for TO, FROM, DATE, SUBJECT. Beneath the heading block, you write your message. You can find an example here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/590/04/

Finally, copy what you wrote on Google Docs and paste it into a comment to this blog post and click post comment. After you have commented, you should refresh the page to make sure that your comment posted correctly.