{"id":348,"date":"2014-09-23T10:43:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/?p=348"},"modified":"2014-09-23T10:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:43:30","slug":"brainstorming-matching-experience-to-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/2014\/09\/23\/brainstorming-matching-experience-to-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainstorming: Matching experience to requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the exercise we did in class on thinking about the language of job ads&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you are applying for a job that lists all of the qualities below as requirements for the position. Take a few moments to brainstorm specific experience and skills from your own background that you could use in a cover letter for this position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. strong communication skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>co-workers \u2014 planning\/collaborating for action<br \/>\nhelps organize<br \/>\nchange is hard \u2014 revising a process or procedure<br \/>\nsports \u2014 strategizing and executing plays<br \/>\n<strong>2. team player<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>entrepreneurship<br \/>\nplanning activities that will benefit everyone<br \/>\nmutual decision making<br \/>\ncoordination through tasks<br \/>\nthinking ahead to help others in unexpected ways\/ doing stuff that\u2019s not nec \u201cyour job\u201d<br \/>\nsharing responsibilities<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. strong work ethic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>staying late to work through a problem<br \/>\ndesire to get er done \u2014 commitment to seeing a project through<br \/>\nexample where you\u2019ve called out to complete a task because of a work ethic<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. ability to multi-task<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Balancing commitments to multiple spaces\/places\/people<br \/>\nVarious actions that are completely different<br \/>\nTools \u2014 calendar\/email\/reminders\/lists<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. attentive to detail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>showing up early<br \/>\nspecific tasks \u2014 coding, carrying the zero,<br \/>\ndocument\/web design<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. problem solver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>reason why you\u2019re in the profession<br \/>\ngiven a set of constraints, tell the story of how you made something with\/in them<br \/>\ndue diligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the exercise we did in class on thinking about the language of job ads&#8230;<\/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":[15,32,35],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ob","tag-cover","tag-job-search","tag-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","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=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}