Topic 8

Reflection and Personal Philosophy

  This is our final assignment for this course and it is concerning Reflection. Reflection is a very important tool used to describe or justify the importance of reasoning in terms of explaining or making a valid point concerning an important manner. While a personal philosophy is a personal principle of believe that you as a person has chosen to follow.
  I am planning to use reflection in developing my e-Portfolio content pages by adding my own personal experiences that I have encountered in the work place as a tool and a guide to prove some of the points and issues that patients who receive healthcare today should be aware of and how they can change or ask the right questions, that may or could save the life of someone.

For this assignment I would like for you all to do the following:
 • Share your understanding of reflection. How is it different from description?
 • How have your own personal reflections change your life and others around you?
 • Also what are some of your own personal reflections? And on do you plan on showcasing this information in your e-portfolio? 
 • Give a few examples of how this course has helped you and will prepare you for the next phase of life.
 • Also what are a few examples that you can share for the next upcoming cornerstone students.


Please take the time to answer each question and also please post to two postings.

Topic 7-Cover Letters and Resumes

Hello everyone. As you may have noticed, this week we will be focusing on resumes. Last week you all had the opportunity to evaluate and hopefully improve your individual interview skills. Now, let's revisit the art of resume writing.As Interdisciplinary Studies students, you will have the task of effectively incorporating your skills sets, academic accomplishments, and past professional experiences into a resume which clearly reflects your Interdisciplinary background.From the interviewers' perspective, your resume will provide a glimpse of what to expect from you.For us, writing a resume will now require some non-verbal communication creativity.

Please review the following and post your responses:

•   Investigate the Career Services Handouts Website at:

 http://www.career.ucf.edu/Students/Undergraduate_Student/Write_Effective_Resumes_and_Cover_Letters/Handouts_49_193.aspx

• Which handouts were most helpful? Least?
• Do you have any handouts or tips for writing an effective resume to share?
• What do you think makes a resume stand out (in either a good or bad way)? 
• What do you want your resume to say about you?

Below are some activities. Please post your responses when you have completed the assignments.

1.Fill out the following handout (first print it out and then fill it out) then post answers on the blog: http://www.cccareers.org/docs/articles/29/CQT_Resume_Worksheet.pdf

 2. After reviewing the website above and filling out the handout, what are three things you learned about resumes and/or cover letters that you didn't know before and will apply in the future.

Topic 6 Interview Skills

For the past several weeks, you have been developing a better understanding of what it means to be an Interdisciplinarian Thinker and how your areas of study can be combined in order to solve complex problems in your personal and professional life. Now that you have a better grasp on what Interdisciplinary is, you will have an opportunity to articulate how your unique background sets you apart from other applicants in a mock interview. How many times have you been in the situation where you couldn’t adequately explain something you wanted to say? Well, here is your chance! This exercise provides a great way to improve verbal communication skills as well as build confidence that will prove invaluable come time for the real interview.

Go to http://www.perfectinterview.com/ucf/ and create an account with UCF Career Services, then tailor your unique interview based on your skills, background and position type. Be sure to take advantage of all of the interview tools available, such as, recording and playing back your responses, using the coach tool, and viewing the example responses in order to help you improve for the next time. Happy Interviewing!

Discuss the results of your interview practice with the group.

• What did you learn about yourself?
• How has this activity helped you prepare for a real interview?
• Discuss the best ways to answer standard and non-standard interview questions
• How should phone interviews and panel interviews be handled?
• When should you discuss salary?

******Don’t forget to also comment on at least two other posts!*****

Topic #5: Professional Opportunities and Job Skills

Hi everyone,

Over the past four weeks I hope you have all developed a better understanding of our major and how we can use our education to achieve our career goals. This week we will be looking at professional opportunities and job skills. It’s important to recognize how the things we are currently doing will help us, both during our time at UCF and in the working world. We should be identifying our job skills and making ourselves more marketable for our future careers. I hope these activities will help you!

Activity:

Look over the following site: http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/html/jurassic.htm. This site integrates film with various fields of study (disciplines). You don’t have to answer any of the questions on the site, but pay special attention to the writing prompts.

Do you think this site is a good example of some of the ways interdisciplinary studies is applied? How does this broaden your perception of the sort of skills you’d need in your field and the types of job opportunities there are out there?

Your thoughts:

We would like to learn more about you and encourage you to think about your academic and career paths, including things you are doing now that will ultimately affect your future! Please respond to 5 of the questions below.

·         How have you used your interdisciplinarity in your professional life?

·         What has been your professional history?

·         What are your strongest and weakest job skills?

·         What can you do to develop and improve upon your weak skills?

·         Identify two professional clubs or organizations that are useful to your chosen career.

·         How have internship or externship helped your professional development?

·         Discuss your personal philosophy concerning your professional life

·         How is or isn't this philosophy interdisciplinary?

·         How have your career goals altered?

Remember...we are here to help! Let us know if you have any questions.