Thursday, April 30, 2009
Apr30 Summary (C16 Interviewing to Get the Job)
Chapter16 Summary
An employment interview involves the interpersonal communication exchange between a potential employer and a job applicant who both consider an employment match during a formal business meeting.
How to Get a Job? In my opinion, there are several methods in securing a job. First, the student can scan the latest information of recruitment on newspapers or in the Internet. Consequently, he may send his application letter coupled with his resume and wait for the possible interview. Second, he can tell his intention of seeking employment to all his friends, teachers and relatives and require their assistance. If they have any information, they may immediately notify him or even recommend him to the personnel manager. What's more, he may publicize his resume in the Internet for the reference of prospective employers. Finally, he can attend the recruiting fairs in which he may send his resume to the companies he desires and even be given an immediate interview.
An employment interview involves the interpersonal communication exchange between a potential employer and a job applicant who both consider an employment match during a formal business meeting.
How to Get a Job? In my opinion, there are several methods in securing a job. First, the student can scan the latest information of recruitment on newspapers or in the Internet. Consequently, he may send his application letter coupled with his resume and wait for the possible interview. Second, he can tell his intention of seeking employment to all his friends, teachers and relatives and require their assistance. If they have any information, they may immediately notify him or even recommend him to the personnel manager. What's more, he may publicize his resume in the Internet for the reference of prospective employers. Finally, he can attend the recruiting fairs in which he may send his resume to the companies he desires and even be given an immediate interview.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Apr30 Summary (C15 Creating a Career and Designing Resumes)
Chapter15 Summary
Creating a career means selecting the right field and matching your skills to the job you want and will enjoy, where as resume is a written marketing tool that briefly summarizes yours skills, abilities, education and experience for a potential employer. Start your resume with work, then included community involvement and activities, and finally address your education. That includes the firms you've worked for, the amount of time you spent in each of your jobs, and your accomplishments in each position.
Try structuring your resume in the following order.
(1) Your Name and Address
Write your name and address at the top of the page. It's becoming increasingly common for schools to notify accepted applicants by e-mail, though, so be sure to include an e-mail address and a telephone number at which the firm can reach you.
(2) Your Work History
Start each job history with the name of the company on the left side of the page. Under that company name write your job title, and on the right side of that same line write your dates of employment (just month and year). It might look something like the following.
(3) Your Community Involvement and Activities
You might list it in the same manner you listed your work experience.
You might also list your personal interests. That includes sports, hobbies and pastimes.
(4) Your Education
Start with graduate level experience if you have any, and then work your way back through undergraduate work and even extension school studies. Use the same format you used above for work experience. List the school first, and then list the degree awarded and the year it was received on the following line. And remember to list any academic awards or distinctions you received and even your GPA if it's good.
Creating a career means selecting the right field and matching your skills to the job you want and will enjoy, where as resume is a written marketing tool that briefly summarizes yours skills, abilities, education and experience for a potential employer. Start your resume with work, then included community involvement and activities, and finally address your education. That includes the firms you've worked for, the amount of time you spent in each of your jobs, and your accomplishments in each position.
Try structuring your resume in the following order.
(1) Your Name and Address
Write your name and address at the top of the page. It's becoming increasingly common for schools to notify accepted applicants by e-mail, though, so be sure to include an e-mail address and a telephone number at which the firm can reach you.
(2) Your Work History
Start each job history with the name of the company on the left side of the page. Under that company name write your job title, and on the right side of that same line write your dates of employment (just month and year). It might look something like the following.
(3) Your Community Involvement and Activities
You might list it in the same manner you listed your work experience.
You might also list your personal interests. That includes sports, hobbies and pastimes.
(4) Your Education
Start with graduate level experience if you have any, and then work your way back through undergraduate work and even extension school studies. Use the same format you used above for work experience. List the school first, and then list the degree awarded and the year it was received on the following line. And remember to list any academic awards or distinctions you received and even your GPA if it's good.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Apr23 Summary (C14 The Business of Change and Conflict)
Chapter14 Summary
Change is often inevitable and necessary for business to expand and progress into the future. Conflict is an event expressed through communication when individual or group behave in ways that indicate they have in compatible positions or goals. There may be conflict in a company for different purposes like for positions or personal interest. There are different traditional conflict strategies, they are: negotiation, positional bargaining, mediation, conflict management and arbitration.
Conflict is actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests. A conflict can be internal (within oneself) or external (between two or more individuals). Conflict as a concept can help explain many aspects of social life such as social disagreement, conflicts of interests, and fights between individuals, groups, or organizations. In political terms, "conflict" can refer to wars, revolutions or other struggles, which may involve the use of force as in the term armed conflict. Without proper social arrangement or resolution, conflicts in social settings can result in stress or tensions among stakeholders. When an interpersonal conflict does occur, its effect is often broader than two individuals involved, and can affect many associate individuals and relationships, in more or less adverse and sometimes even humorous way.
One should not confuse the distinction between the presence and absence of conflict with the difference between competition and co-operation. In competitive situations, the two or more individuals or parties each have mutually inconsistent goals; either party tries to reach their goal it will undermine the attempts of the other to reach theirs. Therefore, competitive situations will, by their nature, cause conflict but if you have good sportsmanship or are just fair it won't cause undesirable conflict. However, conflict can also occur in cooperative situations, in which two or more individuals or parties have consistent goals, because the manner in which one party tries to reach their goal can still undermine the other individual or party.
Change is often inevitable and necessary for business to expand and progress into the future. Conflict is an event expressed through communication when individual or group behave in ways that indicate they have in compatible positions or goals. There may be conflict in a company for different purposes like for positions or personal interest. There are different traditional conflict strategies, they are: negotiation, positional bargaining, mediation, conflict management and arbitration.
Conflict is actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests. A conflict can be internal (within oneself) or external (between two or more individuals). Conflict as a concept can help explain many aspects of social life such as social disagreement, conflicts of interests, and fights between individuals, groups, or organizations. In political terms, "conflict" can refer to wars, revolutions or other struggles, which may involve the use of force as in the term armed conflict. Without proper social arrangement or resolution, conflicts in social settings can result in stress or tensions among stakeholders. When an interpersonal conflict does occur, its effect is often broader than two individuals involved, and can affect many associate individuals and relationships, in more or less adverse and sometimes even humorous way.
One should not confuse the distinction between the presence and absence of conflict with the difference between competition and co-operation. In competitive situations, the two or more individuals or parties each have mutually inconsistent goals; either party tries to reach their goal it will undermine the attempts of the other to reach theirs. Therefore, competitive situations will, by their nature, cause conflict but if you have good sportsmanship or are just fair it won't cause undesirable conflict. However, conflict can also occur in cooperative situations, in which two or more individuals or parties have consistent goals, because the manner in which one party tries to reach their goal can still undermine the other individual or party.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
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