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1. Legos.<\/strong>\u00a0Are they on their way?<\/p>\n 2. Claim letter follow-up: Time Warner Cable.<\/strong> So after our class on Thursday, I tweeted:<\/p>\n I then also tweeted this<\/a>, which led to a series of exchanges with @TWC_Help. Long story short, someone from the local TWC billing office did call me on Friday and I got my rate adjusted back to the original rate (saving me $120\/year). This would have happened anyway, but by Tweeting to them publicly I’d like to think I saved myself about an hour of being on hold. How about you guys? Any stories since Thursday?<\/p>\n 3. Discuss the readings.\u00a0<\/strong>In\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve Read 500 Cover Letters for Entry-Level Media Jobs<\/a> (from\u00a0Slate,<\/em> Aug 2013), Katherine Goldstein says this: “Many young people seem to have no idea how to apply for a job. What I see time after time from young [professionals]\u00a0are not the classic no-nos, like misspellings and typos, but what appears to be a fundamental lack of understanding of how to sell oneself to a prospective employer”\u00a0<\/em>(emphasis mine).<\/p>\n 4. Analyze job ads.\u00a0<\/strong>In\u00a0Cover Letter FAQs<\/a>,\u00a0Career Services\u00a0suggests that the purpose of the cover letter is to “to demonstrate a terrific fit between what the \u00a0organization needs and what you can offer.” In order to do this, you’ll first need to understand exactly what those needs are.<\/p>\n 5. Analyze some sample letters. <\/strong>Although letters will vary somewhat, both the “Writing a Cover Letter<\/a>” handout and the Virginia Tech Career Center page<\/a>\u00a0offer similar advice in terms of structure & content. Use these sources and the original job ads to evaluate\u00a0\u00a0the effectiveness of each letter:<\/p>\n On Thursday, we’ll look at a few more samples and let you do some writing toward your own\u00a0letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we’re looking at 5 main\u00a0tasks: Check in with\u00a0your Lego purchases. Follow up about claim letters. Discuss the readings for today. Analyze some job ads. Analyze some sample letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,14,15,32,35],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ob","tag-claim","tag-complaint","tag-cover","tag-job-search","tag-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screen](\"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-22-at-7.31.05-PM-1.png\")
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