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Introduction to Making a Presentation for a Meeting What you’ll learn to do: Create a presentation intended for a business meeting Tools, no matter how sophisticated, are simply tools. Moving from the right tools to a good presentation involves perspective a...

LEARNING OUTCOME Explain how to acquire necessary skills, both in and out of class, for your career goals “Lifelong learning” is useful phrase to know in the twenty-first century because we are awash in new technologies that enable to gro...

LEARNING OUTCOME Create a résumé customized for a specific job opening On the prior pages, we learned the purpose and sections for résumés: simply to help you get to the interview. To get there, your résumé must quickly demonstrate how yo...

LEARNING OUTCOME Identify characteristics of an effective résumé For many people, the process of writing a résumé is daunting. After all, you are taking a lot of information and condensing it into a very concise form that needs to be both...

LEARNING OUTCOME Discuss the purpose and contents of a résumé A résumé is your first introduction to a potential employer. It is a written picture of who you are—it’s a marketing tool, a selling tool, and a promotion of you as an ideal ca...

What you’ll learn to do: Produce a résumé and a cover letter A résumé and a cover letter are two essential documents for a job hunt. While neither one will necessarily get you the job you want on its own, you may not even make it to the interview phase withou...

LEARNING OUTCOME Identify strategies for networking In the context of career development, networking is the process by which people build relationships with one another for the purpose of helping each other achieve professional goals. Wh...

What you’ll learn to do: Discuss the importance of networking, and identify strategies to increase your professional network Have you ever heard someone say, “He just got hired because his sister knows the manager”? That probably was not the only reason, but ...

LEARNING OUTCOME Describe the stages of career development Career experts say that people will change careers (not to mention jobs) five to seven times in a lifetime, so your career will likely not be a straight and narrow path. Be sure t...

LEARNING OUTCOME List transferable skills that will be valuable for any career path Transferable (soft) skills may be used in multiple professions. In looking at this page for transferable skills, which are largely soft skills, start to t...

Parts of a Good Presentation LEARNING OUTCOMES Identify key features of a good presentation Like reverse engineering a product, we can distill the key features of a good presentation by looking at presentation evaluation scorecards. Refe...

LEARNING OUTCOME List specific skills that will be necessary for your career path If you lived and worked in colonial times in the United States, what skills would you need to be gainfully employed? What kind of person would your employer...

What you’ll learn to do: Discuss how to gain skills necessary for professional life There is no doubt that a huge percent of life is spent at work. If you were to work forty hours a week and live to seventy years old, thirty-five percent of total waking hours...

Why learn to network and apply for jobs? Nadine had worked as a manager at the local grocery store while attending college, working towards graduating from university with a BA in business. She appreciated the store’s support during her years of employment as...

Assignment: Developing and Delivering Business Presentations Step 1: To view this assignment, click on Assignment: Developing and Delivering Business Presentations. Step 2: Follow the instructions in the assignment and submit your completed assignment into t...

Putting It Together: Developing and Delivering Business Presentations Let’s return to your presentation for SB ’18 and assume you were able to power through your doubts and accept the call. Now that you have a solid understanding of presentation tools, option...

Making a Presentation for a Meeting LEARNING OUTCOMES Create a presentation intended for a business meeting With perspective on the technical tools, communications planning and information design, let’s take this learning for a test driv...

Bad Presentations LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss common mistakes in presentations For many, the prospect of developing and delivering a business presentation rates right up there with death and taxes. Interestingly, that same mixture of fear ...

What’s my Presentation About LEARNING OUTCOMES Identify the purpose, audience, and message of your presentation It may be helpful to think of your presentation as having three key parts or interlocking gears: purpose, audience and messag...

LEARNING OUTCOME Identify characteristics of an effective cover letter What Is a Cover Letter? A cover letter is a letter of introduction, usually three to four paragraphs in length, that you attach to your résumé. It’s a way of introduc...