COMM 299 Lecture 10: LESSON 10 pt. 1
11 Feb 2017
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Five step process to writing employment messages: planning. Analyze your purpose and audience: tailor your resume to satisfy the audiences needs. Put all the information in you can gather even if it seems insignificant. Adapting your resume to your audience: writing. Organize it so that it highlights your strengths and downplays your weaknesses. Chronological resume: historical summary of education and work experience: shows how you have progressed over time, appropriate for people with steady work history, best used when seeking a position that reflects growth on your part. Combination resume: includes feature from chronological and functional formats. Includes the best features of the chronological and functional formats: highlight your skills while providing a brief history, appropriate for individuals pursuing higher level positions, completing, distribution, follow-up. My skills: job-related skills: skills required for a specific job, adaptive skills: personal characteristics, transferable skills: skills that can be transferred from one job to another.
