Cover Letters

I liked the part that said that you need to make your cover letter about the company and what you can do to help the company. Your resume should sale you but the cover letter should be well written to help them consider you for the position.

I did not agree with the part that said that resume's do not help as much as thought. I believe that if you send a company a resume then they will take the time to review it even if they are closely tied in with a college recruiting program.

The part that I found most helpful was the part about the mass e mailing. I do not think that this is a good strategy for the reason that if you send it out to hundreds of people, then you might get a response back from a company and not know anything about their business. I also think that it is impossible to make a cover letter that relates to how you will help each company if you send out hundreds of resumes.

Post for Sep. 21

I think that the best way to go about this Waterski Team project is the Google calender. It is easy to access and can be very easily updated and accessed by anyone. I also like the idea of a blog for the website.

Job Interview Articles

The first article that I read had to deal with how to deal with lay offs. I liked this article because it made lay offs sound like a positive thing rather than a negative. It said that you should make sure that you do not lengthen the time that you worked at a place to compensate for the time that you were laid off. It also said that you should concentrate on what you did while you were laid off. This has never happened to me and I hope it doesn't but when it does, I will be better prepared for it having read this article.

The next article that I read was the one about how to deal with poor interviewers. The most helpful part of the article was it told how to buy "face time" with the interviewer. This meant that if the interview was running short you could tell him how you complement the job you are applying for and ask to take a tour of the place where you are working and be introduced to the people that you might be working with. This will come in handy when I get ready to apply for a job because most Ranch Managers are to the point and they might make the interviewing process a little shorter than expected.

Ten Years from now. How can I start. i would like to be sitting on a horse managing a ranch at least 100,000 acres. I am planning on graduating from Clemson with my undergraduate in Animal Science in December of 2009. After that, I am going to either Nebraska, Wyoming, or Montana to catch up with some friends, make some new ones, and cowboy for a couple of years. I need this ranching experience because it is required to be considered for the Masters Program I am planning on attending. I will enjoy doing it, so it will not be too terrible. The Masters Program that I am trying to get into is the King Ranch Institute of Ranch Management. It is a very intensive two year program that is sponsored by the King Ranch. Texas A and M is the University that it is through and they are a very reputable school. After graduating from the program, I am going to try to find a job either at a ranch that I have previously worked at or find a new place to set down. In the meantime, I am learning how to ride bareback horses in the rodeo and will work on my roping skills. If my dreams change to include a professional rodeo career then so be it.

Video Response Post

I think that the title means that writing text it is not as interchangeable as digital text. If you write it down on paper, then you have to use an eraser or start over from scratch, or mail it to someone if you want them to see it.
Web 2.0 affects someone who is ready to enter the workforce because they will most likely be forced to use this type of system to communicate ideas and thoughts back and forth using software such as this.
It affects people who are already in the workforce in the way that they are going to have to learn this new way of communication if they are going to want to be fluent in the language that the "newbies are using" to communicate.
When they say that we will have to rethink everything, they mean that we are going to have to open our minds up to communicating in a new and unfamiliar type of setting.