Lectures Tagged with: Skills
Summarizing
A lecture that tries to introduce the skill on summarizing and the important writing and resources skills
How Not To Write A Robotic Cover Letter
The purpose of this lecture is to give students the tools to make their cover letters more effective by focusing on the language used in them. In particular, students are introduced to the importance of making their cover letters interesting to read for an employer. To achieve that, we discuss certain cliché phrases that are normally found in cover letters, and we offer alternatives that can boost the quality of a cover letter. The students are encouraged to avoid empty words and come up with different ways of communicating their suitability for the job post to make their cover letters successful.
Writing A Cv For A Particular Job Ad.
In the previous lecture, we discussed how a CV can be evaluated in terms of its content. In this lecture, we go through the journey of a job applicant by applying for a real job. Specifically, we study the job ad for a teaching job, and we write a CV for this particular job. We therefore implement a google search for relevant information about the school and its history, and we use this information in our CV writing task. The focus in this exercise is not just the content or the format of a CV, but the whole experience of applying for a real job.
Cultivating Your Cv Qualifications Before Graduation
This lecture is a talk by Dr Rafe Daraghmeh, who is the head of An-Najah’s Alumni Unit. The focus of this lecture is to encourage students to effectively use their time as they are doing their first degrees to cultivate as much experience as possible through volunteering and taking training courses. Students are presented with real life stories from real job interviews of successful fresh graduates without much paid job experience who have secured employment. The secret to emphasize on your CV the unpaid, extracurricular activities that students can do before their graduation.