For the purpose of this assignment, you need to go online and find a posting for a job that you would be a good candidate for once you graduate from College.
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Assignment #1: Job Interview Presentation
For the purpose of this assignment, you need to go online and find a posting for a job that you would be a good candidate for once you graduate from College. In other words, you should look for job postings that require a college degree. You can find such postings on CareerBuilder, Indeed, ZipRecruiter and many other online job search sites.
Once you have found a suitable job posting, you should create the manuscript for a 12-15 minutes long job interview between you (the applicant) and an interviewer. In other words, we assume that you applied for the position and were invited for an interview. You are required to submit a copy of the original job posting and your resume with the completed assignment. A 12-15 minutes long job interview corresponds to a manuscript of approximately 1,200-1,500 words.
By manuscript, I mean a complete transcript of the interview from the moment you enter the interviewer’s office until the moment you say goodbye to each other.
Here is the correct format for the manuscript (you shouldn’t have this exact beginning to your interview. I just want to show you what it should look like on the page):
Interviewer: “Come on in and have a seat.”
Applicant: “Thank you very much.”
Interviewer: “Before we start, let me tell you a little about myself and our company.”
There is no pre-determined structure for the interview. You get to decide on that structure for yourself. Instead, you have to follow certain guidelines. These guidelines are as follows:
The interview should have a logical flow. Remember that a job interview is a coherent conversation between two people and not simply a collection of questions and answers.
There should be questions that assess whether the applicant can fulfill the job responsibilities associated with the position.
There should be questions that assess whether the applicant has the potential to be promoted within the organization (e.g., does s(he) have the requisite leadership experience, skills, and/or potential)
There should be questions that assess whether the applicant fits in within the organization’s culture (e.g., does the applicant prefer to work alone, in teams, etc.)
More generally, there should be questions that assess whether the applicant is a good fit for the position and the organization.
The following two questions have to be a part of the interview:
At some point during the interview, the interviewer has to ask the applicant to recount a challenging, professional situation from the past and how s(he) dealt with it.
At some point during the interview, the interviewer should pose a difficult, hypothetical question to the applicant (e.g., “imagine you are hired, and one day you face the following situation (elaborate on that situation). What would you do and why?”)
Finally, it is very important that the applicant answers questions, whenever possible, by offering concrete evidence for his/her experiences, skills, and potential. One great way to do that is to tell lots of stories about yourself: what you have done, what you are doing, and what you hope to do in the future. Put differently: in a job interview, the stories you tell about yourself count as evidence for your qualifications.
To help you create a good job interview, I have attached links to relevant documents. But remember to follow my specific guidelines for the assignment.
https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/40591_15.pdfhttps://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/40591_15.pdf
https://miamioh.edu/student-life//_files/documents/career-services/pdfs/interviewing.pdf
https://www.dvc.edu/enrollment/career-employment/employment-services/pdfs/50-Common-Interview-Questions.pdf
https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/A5A7D4FD-936E-4562-8EC79EFCECAC7F3B/biginterview-top-10-questions.pdf
https://www.hws.edu/academics/career/pdfs/intvq.pdf
https://www.successpeople.com.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2019/02/questionsandanswers.pdf
https://www.robertwalters.co.nz/content/dam/robert-walters/global/files/complete-interview-guide/Interview-guide-web.pdf
https://soulsearch.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/64interviewquestions1.pdfhttps://soulsearch.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/64interviewquestions1.pdf
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/interviewing/top-interview-questions-and-answershttps://www.indeed.com/career-advice/interviewing/top-interview-questions-and-answers
Assignment #2: Informative Presentation
For the purpose of this assignment, you have to choose a topic within business and professional communication on which you will deliver a 12-15 minutes long, research-based, informative presentation. Just like the job interview presentation (assignment #1), this presentation should be delivered in the form of a manuscript that contains, word for word, the entire presentation. The manuscript should be 1,200-1,500 words.
It is very important that the presentation is based on credible research. By credible research, I mean actual research findings/data as recorded in scholarly research studies. You can access such research studies via Google Scholar. If you are in doubt about whether the material you have collected is appropriate for the presentation, just ask me via email. It is also important that the presentation is value-neutral. You are not arguing a point; you are simply informing the audience about what is known about your topic.
You can choose any subject within business and professional communication; the most important thing, again, is that the entire presentation is based on credible research, which is nicely summarized and discussed during the presentation.
The presentation should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. It should also include a bibliography of all the material on which it is based. Here is what you need to do in each part of the presentation:
The Beginning
Introduce the topic of your presentation by explaining its importance and discuss how the rest of your presentation is organized. The presentation should have a logical flow, which is clearly explained and justified.
The Middle
In the main part of the presentation, you provide a comprehensive and nuanced review of what research has discovered about your chosen topic, nicely organized into sub-topics, which you clearly introduce to the listener. It is important that your properly integrate and synthesize the research findings that you discuss instead of simply discussing one individual study after the other. The presentation should have a coherent story line and be organized into main points and sub-points. Do not mention the names of researchers, their affiliations, or make any methodological comments. Just focus on the research findings/data.
The End
You should end the presentation by briefly summarizing your main points and discuss any gaps in the research that future research should address.
The Bibliography
Please include an alphabetized list of all the material on which your presentation is based.
To help you create a good informative presentation, I have attached links to relevant documents. But remember to follow my specific guidelines for the assignment.
http://publicspeakingproject.org/PDF%20Files/Informative%20web%201.pdf
https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/pdfs/guide52.pdf
https://www.pearsonhighered.com/assets/samplechapter/0/2/0/5/0205467350.pdf
https://he.kendallhunt.com/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/Kendall_Hunt/Content/Higher_Education/Uploads/Coast_PS_1e_Ch10.pdf
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-realworldcomm/chapter/11-1-informative-speeches/
https://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/chapter/11-1-informative-speeches/
https://www.cengage.com/resource_uploads/downloads/0534579248_50529.pdfhttps://www.cengage.com/resource_uploads/downloads/0534579248_50529.pdf
https://2012books.lardbucket.org/pdfs/public-speaking-practice-and-ethics/s19-informative-speaking.pdf
