MGMT 815.8

Your Employment Portfolio Tool Box: Maximizing Your Job Skills

Your ability to conduct an effective job search is essential to sustaining your career success. Additionally, your communication skills play a key role in this important process from creating and maintaining an eye-catching resume to interviewing well when the stakes are high.



Whether you’re entering a new industry, changing career paths, or simply looking to create or update your resume, you need a current set of communication skills to plan, design, and deliver an effective employment portfolio. This workshop provides the practical and relevant skills you need to feel confident conducting your job search.



Topics include:


  • Networking/Information Interviews

  • Managing Your Job Search

  • Employment Communication Documents: Cover Letters, Resumes, Follow Up Letters

  • Interviewing Skills: Current Trends, Best Practices



Taught over two Saturday mornings, this format enables you to receive instructor feedback on written documents so you leave with a complete and professional employment portfolio consisting of a final resume, cover letter, and follow up letter. At the end of this course, students will be able to:


  • Identify the three main types of professional resumes.

  • Determine which resume is best suited for current professional need.

  • Design and develop an individual resume format to match current goals.

  • Recognize different interviewing formats, including current trends.

  • Practice interviewing through role play scenarios such as anticipating and effectively answering behavioral questions.

  • Identify the correct way to obtain a letter of recommendation.

  • Create and finalize an employment portfolio containing a final resume, cover letter, and follow up letter.

  • Establish customized processes for managing career growth and networking activities.



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Course
Approximate Cost TBD
Format Online
Duration TBD
CEU 1