week 7

While a cover letter and resume serve as a way to introduce your strengths and experience to a potential employer, it is important to remember that this is often a first impression that can be the determining factor in securing an interview.

With that said, the presentation can be just as important as the content itself, so it is important to remember that it is not simply what you say, but how well you say it.

Think about your cover letter and resume and how they work hand in hand to provide a snap shot of who you are as a professional.

Some quick things to remember are that your resume should summarize your abilities, skills, and accomplishments. While your cover letter should not duplicate your resume, but should highlight your qualifications and achievements that relate to the position that you are applying for in an enthusiastic, confident tone.

Let's examine cover letters and resumes a bit further...

What are ways your resume can highlight your interdisciplinarity?

What are some questions about cover letters you've have?

Share your best cover letter

What are questions about resumes that you have and/or share some advice?

Share any resources you've found about cover letters and/or resume

The semester is almost over, lets keep up the good conversations! :)

Happy blogging!

Week 6 * Interview

This week we will practice our interview skills. Visit the link below
and follow the instructions listed here.
http://www.perfectinterview.com/ucf/
Instructions:
1. Complete one "short" interview where the selections are chosen for
you. Complete one "short" interview where you make the selections.
Choose at least three areas you'd like to work on the most. Note the
options of the "Alternate Response" and the "Coach" that can be used.
2. You may choose to either use video capture or no video capture. If
you choose no video capture you will be required to type your
responses. Save both interviews.
3. Draft a reflection about your practice interview, commenting on the
questions asked and your responses to the questions. You might comment
on what questions were problematic. What were the strengths of your
responses? What could you improve in your responses? How did you
responses compare to the "Alternate Response"? What did you learn from
the "Coach?"
4. Give one question about interviewing or a piece of advice that
you've gained in your interviewing experiences.
5. Click on "Review Saved Interviews." Click on the "Share" button.
E-mail yourself your interview and include the links in your posting.

Interviews are inevitable when you enter the workforce. Think about
the interviewing process and some of the exercises above. . Post your
thoughts about the results of your interview practice, the best
answers you can come up with for standard and non-standard interview
questions, how you might deal with a phone interview or an interview
in front of a panel, and if and when there is a good time to talk
salary with an interviewer.

Week 5

Hi mentees! Hope everyone is having a great week. We have made it half way so far, yay! J For this week’s topic we will be discussing professional opportunities and job skills. Being interdisciplinary students we are lucky enough to say we have more job skills than most graduates because our degrees focus on more than one area. I have personally worked many jobs that were not involved with my areas, but with all my skills I have learned being an interdisciplinary student, I was able to relate. Most of us don’t realize but we use our interdisciplinary skills a lot more then we think. Please answer the following question and share about your job skills! In Ambers personal experience and work history, I have used my interdisciplinary skills in many different ways. I had an office management job that required multiple disciplines of knowledge. For instance, one minute I would be fixing some technological problem with my computer, the next talking on the phone utilizing my customer service skills with a guest of our hotel. And even just moments later I would be tallying up someone's resort bill using my mathematical skills (however lacking they might be lol). Over the years I have also had waitressing jobs in which the same skills as well as many others are utilized on a daily basis.

· How have you used your interdisciplinarity in your professional life?

· What has been your professional history?

· What are your strongest and weakest job skills?

· What can you do to develop and improve upon your weak skills?

· Identify two professional clubs or organizations that are useful to your chosen career.

· How have internship or externship helped your professional development?

· Discuss your personal philosophy concerning your professional life

· How is or isn't this philosophy interdisciplinary?

· How have your career goals altered?

Please dont forget to sign your name at the bottoms of your post, and have a great weekend!

Week 5 - Interdisciplinary in your professional life

• How have you used your interdisciplinarity in your professional life?
• What has been your professional history?
• What are your strongest and weakest job skills?
• What can you do to develop and improve upon your weak skills?
• Identify two professional clubs or organizations that are useful to your chosen career.
• How have internship or externship helped your professional development?
• Discuss your personal philosophy concerning your professional life
• How is or isn't this philosophy interdisciplinary?
• How have your career goals altered?