Initiating the Job Search

In the SLPs for this course, you will assume the role of a currently employed professional wanting to change careers. Each of the SLPs will focus on different phases of the job search. In each SLP, you will apply the business communication principles covered in the module.
Search for companies you are interested in working for, or jobs you are keen on. You may begin your search at an employment website (such as Monster.com, usajobs.gov, etc.) and find a job opening that interests you. Save the existing job advertisement for a position you are interested in.
You will be completing the subsequent SLPs using this job opening you identified.
Write a generic email, using principles from routine and goodwill emails(see below), to inquire about your desired position. You may ask questions related to application procedures, deadlines, references, or any other detail. The objective of this email is to build rapport with the company and notify them of your interest, and the possibility you may be submitting an application later on. Include the actual job advertisement in your submission. This could be a pdf document, or a link to the advertisement.
Following the email, write an essay explaining the principles and good practices you followed while creating it.
Submit your assignment by the module's due date.
SLP Assignment Expectations
Your email should be professionally formatted and effectively deliver the message, using concepts covered in the module. Please use proper English. Sentences must be properly constructed and free of grammatical and typographical errors. No citations are needed in the email.
In your summary, you are expected to discuss your strategies and approach, using the concepts covered in the module. Your discussion should be analytical and sufficiently rigorous to demonstrate synthesis of the concepts. Formal citations are required, along with a formal bibliography. The summary is to be prepared as an academic essay. Content should be clearly presented with a logical flow.
SLP General Expectations
For the SLPs, students are expected to play a role as themselves in the job market. You are to identify a job that interests you in Module 1. The SLPs will take you through the job search and application process, presenting you in different scenarios requiring you to demonstrate your ability to communicate effectively and professionally.
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Principles from routine and goodwill emails:
Read the article “Tame the email beast!” by Garbringer (2008). Create an email in a letter format, to all of your fellow employees, to announce an email policy that you have just created. You are not persuading; you are announcing. Specify the response that you want from the email (e.g., ask the recipients to email a receipt response). Your email must start with an introduction and end with a conclusion. You must be tactful and professional. Remember, some of those folks have been around a long time, and some are beginning their very first jobs.