Category: Knowledge

Material: folder Week 11 1.) Topic 11: Building Careers and Writing Résumés: Please read the GulfNews article (Revealed: Why UAE recruiters trash your CV) enclosed and list some (at least 5) do’s and don’ts of CV/Resume writing (1 Point) 2.) Topic 12: Applying and Interviewing for Employment: Read this unsuccessful cover letter and rewrite it in such a way that it follows the AIDA model of persuasive writing. (1 Point) Unsuccessful Cover Message/Letter Dear Mr Stark, This is to apply for a position in marketing with your company. At present, I am completing my studies in marketing at Wilmont University and will graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in human resource management this May. I have taken all the courses in marketing available to me as well as other helpful courses such as statistics, organizational psychology, and ecommerce. I have had good working experience as a host and food server, a sales associate, and a HR intern. Please see details on...

A Year in the Life of a Manager Managing Two Employees at Different Stages of Their Professional Lives Background: Allies of College Educators (ACE) is a Silicon Valley start-up founded in 2011 as a digitally driven, higher education consultancy that specializes in using the latest technology to aid admissions departments at U.S. colleges to attract, enroll, and retain students from diverse backgrounds. Combined, the core of ACE’s leadership team has more than 40 years of experience in college admissions departments. Like many start-ups, they were able to exploit their combined professional networks to grow ACE’s customer base quickly without a sales department and with only a small team of customer service representatives. By 2013, ACE had gained a strong reputation as the innovative, technologically driven, and cost-effective consultancy for higher education institutions suffering from the budget shortfalls caused by the economic downturn. In June 2014, the chief executive officer (CEO) and product director introduced a new 3-year plan to the ACE board. Their research showed that access to online college applications among prospective students had dramatically increased...

LITERARY THEORY: AN OVERVIEW (adapted from The Norton Introduction to Literature, shorter 12th ed.) EMPHASIS ON SOURCE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM—(popular 1750s-1960s), emphasis on the artistic expression/agency of a work, the author is the ultimate authority, a look at how the author’s biographical information may have affected the work (as a whole or in part). PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM—emphasis on mental and emotional effects within literature such as dreamlike imagery, rarely focuses on the form of the text—they tend to focus on hidden meanings/agendas behind the author or a source behind the character.   EMPHASIS ON READER------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM—“regard the work not as what is printed on the page but as what is experienced temporally through each act of reading”, “the reader effectively performs the text into existence the way a musician performs music from a score”, identifies reader’s expectations, how they are met/satisfied/interpreted, could possibly bring in political identities because of the potency of literature to shape and be shaped by human experiences. HISTORICAL/IDEOLOGICAL CRITICISM---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARXIST CRITICISM—(20th century-present, Karl Marx), “literary works...