Potential Employment Opportunities

Potential Employment Opportunities

Potential Employment Opportunities

The purpose of this assignment is to identify potential employment opportunities and utilize persuasive and professional writing skills to create job search materials.

Using an online job search site, such as Indeed.com, CareerBuilder.com, or the GCU Career Services website, select an internship or position for which you are currently qualified. Ensure that the job posting provides a detailed descriptions of the candidate’s desired education, experience, or qualifications.

For this assignment, create a cover letter, resume, and LinkedIn profile that could be used when applying for the position. Ensure that each includes the following elements:

• Persuasively highlight your skills, abilities, qualifications, and experience relevant to the position you are seeking.
• Utilize a clear, easy‐to‐read font, and provide an appropriate photo.
• Ensure content is free of spelling and grammatical errors.
• Demonstrate mastery of format by utilizing standard cover letter and resume construction and thorough completion of all basic LinkedIn profile sections, including Intro, Summary, Experience, Education, Volunteer Experience, Skills and Endorsements. The cover letter should not exceed two pages and should conform to block format cover letter standards.

Submit the resume, cover letter, a link to your LinkedIn profile, as well as a link to the job posting for which you are applying.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

 

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.