Lies on Resumes

As i was reading the article, i noticed that lying on a resume is a popular thing around the world. I would have never guessed that about 50% of people applying for jobs lie on their resumes. It is not fair to the people who are telling the truth obviously because their chances decrease because of the people who make their resumes sound almost perfect.

Reading this was not a surprise to me because i have heard of a numerous amount of occasions where people have been caught lying and cheating of things of this sort. If you get caught in this situation it will lead to nothing but big trouble for the future. So i always go with the safest route which is telling the whole truth.

Presentation

When it comes to the presentations in class all of them were interesting because they were things that i never knew about. I was glad that i got to see all of them. I Learned a lot of new things and i hope to use them in the future.

The Presentation that stood out to me the most was the one with the chicken. I thought it was really cool that we had a chicken in the classroom and it wasn't going wild.I never knew that you could tame a chicken like that.

Mock Interview

As i had my mock interview it helped realize how important it is. It is good to show the person interviewing you that you are confident about yourself. i learned that confidence is a major plus in the interviewing category. this interview has helped me realize what i need to work on and also how to present myself.

Overall i am happy with how the mock interview turned out. I also got some pointers that will definitely help me out in the near future as i prepare for my real job interview.

free topic

I guess since it is a free topic i will just write about anything that comes to mind. Well for instance as i woke up on this Sunday morning, i walked outside to see how the weather was going to be for today. As i looked at my car i notice that something does not look right about it, so i walk over to it and walk around the car and i notice that my car is leaning over to one side. I looked down at one of the tires and see that it is completely flat. I thought to myself how in the world it could have happened, but instead of wasting time i drive to the car shop to put some air in it.

After reading all the articles about cover letters, i would never imagined how important a cover letter can be. I never knew that something such as a cover letter could increase your chances to get a good job greatly. The advice given about cover letters are very beneficial to me and i agree with everything that i read. Many company's who are reading applications have to go through so many resumes and cover letters, but the first thing they look at is the cover letter. Based on the cover letter decides whether the company will go into further reading of your application or if they just move to the next one. Finally, i must agree with the fact that researching the company is a very smart thing to do.

Interviews

I read many of the articles and found the ones i read to be very interesting and helpful. They answered any questions that i would ever have about going into an interview and knowing what to do. In one of the articles they were talking about if you were having an interview over the phone and what to do. They basically said that you should try and dress up in your suit and talk on the phone because it makes you feel as if you were actually sitting in someones office. Learning that was helpful because when i was younger, i actually had a interview over the phone, i know it was an important job but i would still have tried it. Another article was explaining how to deal with stress during an interview. That article was most helpful to me because i can nervous about interviews real easy sometimes. Hopefully when it is time for me to start taking interviews more seriously i can remember everything i learned reading these articles.

Pesuasion

I found a article written by Caroline Kennedy and it is about the support of Barack Obama as a Presidential candidate. I chose to compare this article to MLK's letter and the army recruiters presentation. Ethos in Kennedy's article could be found easily when she kept going on about all the stories and entertainment she had celebrating her land. MLK establishes his ethos throughout the entire speech, just by the choice of words in which he used and also by how he states how he is a leader. In Kennedy's article she really didn't really have any examples of logos, but while i was reading it she did make some very reasonable and logical announcements which helped her out a good bit. As far as logos goes, i would say that the army recruiters showed many examples of that. They said that you could take out student loans while in college, but if you join the army, the army will pay all that money back to the school which you borrowed from, which means you can pocket all the rest of the money along with paying for your school. Pathos was displayed throughout Kennedy's letter along with MLK's speech. For Caroline Kennedy, she stated many facts using family members, and when you start to include family members, times can start to become very emotional. In MLK's speech he used very strong quotes which have very powerful meanings which can also be very persuasive and emotional at the same time.