June 16, 2011

The job that I have chosen to send my cover letter to is Nestle / Poland Springs. I picked this company because they have a local job position available for telesales representative and I know a few people who work there that really like their job.



I have worked at Shaw's in Taunton for the last 6 years. That's 6 boring years of customer service. I'm not saying this is my dream job by any means, I'm just saying I'm qualified for it! Here are some of the items on the list of qualifications:




Outstanding communication skills – “I received a D in COMM130, D’s get Degrees!”

Bi-lingual skills in Spanish a plus – “eu nao falo espanhol!”

Must possess strong negotiation skills – “you want 10 dollars for that? I’ll give you 20 &that’s final!”

Ability to identify needs and offer solutions – “sorry sir, that sounds like a problem you’ll have to resolve on your own”

Excellent written and oral communication skills “sO shooD I tipe lyke thiS?”

A high degree of professionalism/ability to interact with callers in a professional manner – “sure, can I get you anything else , ******bag”

Strong computer skills including Microsoft office suite—“I just upgraded to windows 95”



On a more serious note, I feel as though this is a job I can obtain with me excellent intrapersonal skills, knowledge of the company, enthusiasm to learn, and ability to pick up new information quickly!

June 13, 2011

For this week’s project, my group was assigned Proposals. Proposals are persuasive documents that are written with an aim to receive research funds or products/services. The part that I covered in my group was how to write the proposal. I based my slides off the chart that I will put below and then went more in depth about it.

There are pretty much seven steps to writing a proposal:
1. analyze the purpose
2. analyze the audience
3. gather information
4. choose the type
5. draft proposal
6. format proposal
7. revise and edit

If you want to know more about proposals and how awesome they are, you're going to have to be in class on Monday and have your mind blown by how awesome my groups' PowerPoint is.


Also, I just realied when I "previewed" my post that you can't read my picture, which is a shame! If you want to see the chart see page 432 in your book! Sorry!

June 6, 2011

To create a flyer for prospective students there are a few sites that I have started off with by looking at. The first thing I did was went to google and typed in "bridgewater state" and searched for images. These are a couple of pictures that I liked:







Then I went to bridgew.edu and searched for their logo. At this website you can find colored logos, black and white logos and watermarks:

http://www.bridgew.edu/BrandingToolbox/signatures.cfm




The final step that I took to get started in this assignment was to look at the "prospective students" secion of the website. Then you click on where it says "undergraduate admissions" and it will take you to this link

http://www.bridgew.edu/admission/

from here you can view academic programs, read about student life, and take a look at the admissions process.

Those are some of the things I did to get started on this assignment!

June 1, 2011

Of the topics I read about in the past week, one of the more interesting topics to me was different techniques you could use to find out about your audience. The first step to learning about your audience is figuring out what you already know and don't know about them. After you figure that out, you could search them on the internet, interview people that you think know you’re most important readers well, and read what your readers have written. This way you have a good idea of your readers’ style of doing reading and writing. By reading your future readers documents, you can get a pretty good idea of what they would like to see in one including design, organization, level of detail and vocabulary.

This is interesting to me because I feel like these days it must be so easy to find information on people. It seems to me like it’s strange if you don't have a Facebook or a website of their own, so it's pretty easy to dig up information on people. I feel like when somebody I know isn’t easily found on the internet that it’s because they have something to hide, whether that’s true or not, I don’t know, but I do know that before this class began, I typed in “Nicole Williams” into google.com just to see what would come up!