Final Hybrid Homework

On Wednesday 29, 2015 Professor Santana set up mock interviews in groups of three for the class. In my group I was the first to hear the questions and give my best answers or answers I thought would serve more purpose to the exercise. The interview went very well and I answered each question with confidence and talked more about my experiences than anything else because it showed that I learned from those certain situations that I had to endure. When it was my turn to give the interview I based the questions off of what would be asked in a real interview because most of the questions that were on the list were poorly written. Alex answered his questions well and like myself based his answers from personal experience. So, all in all the interviews went very well and everyone answered the questions in a professional manner.

Employment Project

The employment project went pretty well and after completing the assignment, I understood the value it had on me. The skills inventory really helped me establish the way I work with other individuals and how I establish a sort of happiness with all of my employees. When I typed everything up, I didn’t really speak highly of myself because then it would have shown what type of individual I am. When I was creating the resume it brought back memories because it explains were a certain individual begins his/her working experience. Growing up, I had many work experiences so writing about it helped me remember where I came from and how hard I have worked to become the person I am today. Also, the John C. Lincoln hospital was my first interview, so I knew what to expect when we did the mock interview with the class on Wednesday. The questions at the hospital interview were similar to the questions that we got in class. Moving on, the job analysis worksheet was opinionated and the main reason for it was to get more information from the place where that the job is being attained. So the main reason for the job analysis is to inform the professor about the location that you are applying for or want to apply for.

Cover Letter

The cover letter was also pretty easy because once the resume was completed all that was needed was to thoroughly explain what was going on in that resume. Like in the beginning, I talked about where I currently work and how it’s going so far and how have I improved since then. Well, I started off by saying that even though my mother owns the restaurant; it doesn’t mean that I get special credit. It means that you have to do twice the amount of work. I started at cleaning the tables and moping the areas that were dirty then from them I was promoted and so on. Currently, I hold a managerial position and correct any situation that becomes crazy and unmanageable. I look forward to those types of incidents happening because it shows that you have improved from the beginning to the end. In the near future, I hope that our business expands and becomes a franchise, so that we can make a name of ourselves. Right now we are blessed and everyone’s work experience is going great and expanding, so at this rate I am excited to see what is in store for me in the future. The employees help me a lot because they also see if I’m doing my job correctly.

Going back to the project as a whole, I believe that it saved everyone an enormous amount if time because some of the students in the class are graduating and needed to submit a resume to jobs and by doing this project it puts them in a good position to begin with. Also, the professor could help these students submit a proper resume the correct way because most students still do not have a clue on how to write a resume. This project did many things to me at least because I knew how to write a resume, but I know more now that I completed my resume and got help from the professor. So all in all I would like to thank Professor Santana for such a great semester and that she taught me so much not only in English, but also in a more professional way.

Blogger Response

I started working for my family in their restaurant at a very young age and had to grow up pretty fast giving up all the fun activities and joys of life so I could be in the position that I am in now. When I first started at the restaurant, I didn't really feel like I was under any pressure when doing my work because I basically did it in my own time and didn't really need to rush. So, the question that I am answering right now is "Tell me about a time you worked under pressure?" When I was promoted to manager by my mother it wasn't because I was her son, it was because I deserved it and could lead them to success when they needed it. One time the restaurant was full and there wasn't any seats available and the orders were scattered everywhere and everyone was going crazy. What I did was I took the smaller orders and put them in the front, while they worked on the much larger orders because then it would basically kill two birds with one stone. I managed the orders and took on the job when everyone else did not know what to do, I didn't fold under pressure. I believe that in pressure I work my best because it allows me to come in the clutch because I am an athlete and I know when to deliver what is needed in the so called fourth quarter.  The next question I was interested in was "Give an example about a goal you reached and tell me how you achieved it?" When I was in high school, I was really strict with my my grades than I am now so I was getting grades that I didn't deserve. I was on the brink of failing math and I didn't have that much time to fix my grade, so in order to bring my grade back up to an A I had to get perfect scores on the next three tests including the final exam. I studied my brain out for the next couple of months in order to reach my goal and I also attended tutor centers in order to achieve my goal and be ready for the tests. I took the first test and ended up receiving an A and after that it was like a train that followed because I had reached my goal and ended up getting the grade I wanted and that's an A.

 "Describe a stressful situation at work and how you handled it." My answer to that is that the restaurant business is always stressful and not everyone is in the best of moods and if someone says the wrong thing then everyone attacks all at once. When attending school and working at the same time, times could get stressful and you'd have to schedule your plans differently. So one day I was very angry because I had to work even though I had a test to do, but how I conquered my temper was that I counted to 10 and took deep breaths because thinking about something too much can kill even the most muscular and toughest men. "Have you ever been in a situation where you didn't have enough work to do?" Similar to the way it gets busy, it also gets very slow in a restaurant setting and whenever that happens I try to complete my homework and any other work that has to be done or is coming close to its due date. The restaurant business is not predictable and anything could happen in a matter of one minute and that's what I deal with when I have no work to do because there are some perks to being the boss' son. "Tell me a time you went above and beyond the call of duty?" The only thing that comes to mind is when the restaurant first started, there was a lot of work to be done to it and what I did was I built many things to make my moms job easier and that's the only time i've ever done something like that because I'm not really the handy man type and that's why I went above and beyond.

 Lastly, I want to answer "Give an example of how you worked on team?" My final answer to that is that I am an athlete and I played baseball in my earlier days, so playing on a team is all I do, but I implement it to my daily life. Working in a restaurant, you have to be loyal and kind to so that you can receive the same kind of treatment. So the example would be the restaurant because you have to put more into the working environment than is intended because if nobody is getting along then the entire flow of the atmosphere will be ruined. 

Employment Project

Employment Project

The employment project grading scale shows that the resume is the first assignment in the project and it has a couple points of emphasis. The resume has to have a clear design; the content has to be concise and specific. The readability has to be easy, clarification, and connection has to effective with the audience. The last objective is that the resume has to be tailored to the job that is being emphasized in the project.

The application letter has three bodies to the assignment, which include an introductory paragraph along with a body and conclusion. Also, the easiness, clarity, and topic sentences are graded. The entire project has many parts to it, but I will talk more about it throughout the paper.

Chapter 15

In chapter 15, I learned that to bed more successful for a job search, you must “present your credentials both on paper and online (Markel, 405). Also, it is a better idea to create your own resume rather then going to a resume preparation agency because the agency doesn’t know you better than yourself. Another reason why it is better to create your own resume is because if there were a problem that occurred, you would know how to improvise because its your own work. There are two ways a resume can communicate and its by “appearance and content” (Markel, 405).

Work experience

When I was 9 years old my uncles had a dollar store called Safi Dollar and my work experience kind of started there because I was always counting inventory and re- stocking the shelves over there. Many could say that it’s not work experience at a dollar store, but that dollar store was the only one in the neighborhood, so it was always busy. My family is from Afghanistan, so we are hard workers and start at a young age because that was the way you had to do things to support your family.  I was born in the Phoenix, but my parents didn’t want to raise me to be lazy, so they taught me to be responsible and to work hard at everything. Working at the dollar store created a different mind set for me along with a new thought pattern. When I   turned 13, my aunt let me work for her in her jewelry store named Silver Outlet. Like in my dollar store job, I was categorizing the rings and counting inventory. On some occasions, my aunt would challenge me and see who could sell more jewelry in the duration of the day. I think that’s how I became such a great salesman. When I became a sophomore in high school my brother and me started a t- shirt business and decided to see where that would take us. My brother was in charge of the designs and I was in charge of the sales. I put my talent to work and the business ended up booming and we I was selling shirts left and right, it became so famous around us that we were approached by another shirt company to collaborate wit them. Our shirt company had a lot of fans, but we had to shut it down because my mother opened a restaurant in that same year.

The Restaurant

My work experience boosted so much over the years since the opening of the restaurant because it derives it is mainly customer service. I think since I was 9 until now my level of experience has risen to master level because it has come to a point where I already know the answer of a customer before they even speak to me. There are many people who come to our restaurant and I think that because of the people you would have to adapt to everyone’s personality. Right now I work in the restaurant as a manager and an individual who looks over everyone to see that they are doing their jobs the correct and efficient way.

What do you need to know how to do?

Every job has different standards that take place and a certain skill that is needed for that job to work. Customer service is a big aspect in every job that the workers need to comprehend and I believe that with my work experience I have attained a higher level of understanding with customers on a personal level.  So, knowing customer service what everyone should understand and be good at.

Project

I am excited to work on this project and add a few more work experiences to my resume. Also, I am excited to find out more information about my job interests and probably learn about new jobs that peak my interest.

Blogger Response March 23, 2015

In the beginning of the semester I didn’t have a clue about what any of the professional literacies were, but after week 7 and 8, I started to catch along with what they were and how to understand most of them. The teamwork and collaboration is basically what my group is doing at the moment with the project. The honesty, clarity, and accuracy were what I had to use in the first project that was assigned because it lead to high grade. The honesty is mainly emphasizing on the audience and how you can create a better connection with the two. Once the audience trusts you then there is no need in them being interested to what the topic is on because they will be focused from the beginning? Also, clarity played a big step in the formation of the project because if there isn’t a clear view of what you are explaining, then everyone will be confused. So, those are the things that I learned up until now.

Professional Literacies

The professional literacies would be a big help with the project because it will create a bigger picture for group. We could follow some guidelines from those certain literacies to form and perfect the way other students will look at our piece of art.  Also, professionalism and work ethic could help the cause because you never want to address the audience as a friend and keep it professional. Same thing with work ethic, you want to have a strong work ethic so that it is consistent and properly completed. Graphical communication could fall under the same category as professionalism because you would have to have the right materials and graphics for a presentation, so this would help the situation of staying consistent with the work ethic.

Chapter 17

In chapter 17, I thought the guidelines for the reader’s questions were very important because I could probably create my questions from the same model. The first question that I thought was important was what was the purpose of the report, what were the problems leading to the decision to perform the procedure, and what were the results (Markel, 470). These questions serve a purpose to my assignment because it is my job to interview the head director of the center assigned to my group. Well, I haven’t had much luck with an interview, but I could compose the questions from the outline given in the example. Our group is close to finishing the recommendation report and any information that we couldn’t get was replaced by a different set of information

Chapter 6

In chapter 6, I learned the guidelines for appropriate searching methods. The methods that I liked were being persistent, recording data carefully, and triangulating research methods (Markel, 123). Being persistent is very important because if you do not have the correct knowledge about a certain topic, it doesn’t hurt to ask questions or get some help on the topic. Recording data carefully is also an important aspect because if your data doesn’t match up with your paper, then the professor or audience will feel like you have just made up the information. That is the worst thing that could happen in a research project. Triangulating research methods also falls under important because it helps the audience understand how strong the source is and how consistent. The sources are the most important because it helps everyone know that you took the time to find the information and that it is correct.

Chapter 19

In chapter 19, it explains how like in chapter 18 that you have to present honest recommendations. Presenting examples helps the cause of giving honest information and effects how the audiences actions (Markel, 519). For the conclusions part, drawing a conclusion needs to be carefully about the results because if the there is one slip up then the results will be a lie. With the recommendation the question what should we do has to be addressed because then it is your responsibility to give explanations and talk about the topic intended (Markel, 523). The table of contents serves a purpose because it leads the readers to the right direction in case they want to find a certain topic or direction. Labeling this topic the right and correct way helps the cause of being consistent with the document. References help organize the documents because it again gives credit to individuals or to books that their ideas or words were used to help construct a document (Markel, 531).  All in all, I wanted to say that it was a great experience working with my group because they were so professional and on schedule.

Week 7 hybrid homework

English 301 Hybrid Homework

           

To start off the day yesterday, our group had a meeting about what the agenda was for the upcoming weeks for the project. Jason was unable to attend the meeting, but we emailed him about what was discussed in the room. Martin, Elizabete, and I discussed our objectives everyone basically talked about their progression on their part of the assignment. My part is taking a little longer than anticipated because all of the directors and professors do not reply back so that I could interview them through email. My part is the main section for the research, but I’ve gotten most of my research from a thorough search of the website on the ASU webpage. I started the “research methods” section so I could give my group a draft to brainstorm around. The next part I will get to and write about, but our main worries were about the organization and duties of our group members and with that meeting we accomplished it by sending emails and updating each other on the project.

Chapter 8

The section that was important to me was where it talked about identifying the elements of an argument. The reason for its importance is because it talks about evidence, reasoning, and claims of an argument (Markel, 187). So, basically the claim is what you want the audience to believe about a certain topic or argument. The reasoning explains your logic when you’re approaching the subject. Lastly, the evidence is the part of argument that makes the claims and reasoning true with its facts (Markel, 187). There is also a difference in the types of evidence used when reasoning in an argument.  The first set of evidence is “commonsense” arguments and it explains how most of the data is commonsense and the audience members should just use their logic to figure out the certain topic at hand. Then there is numerical data, which are generally more persuasive (Markel, 188). The thing about the numerical data is that most business’ that are competing against another brand tend to use graphs of numerical data to show that their company is better than everyone else’s. Lastly, comes the expert testimony, which my opinion is the most important because the certain individual that is elaborating on the topic has studied and mastered the category and whatever the individual explains is correct and should be taken as evidence (Markel, 189).  Moving on, another topic that peeked my interest was appealing to emotions responsibility. The reason for such interest was because I took a look at the example displayed on page 191 and it explains how KFC was cruel and what it would do to the animals at the slaughterhouse (Markel, 191). This example doesn’t overdo it with the sympathetic and emotional facts and if they were to do it would become an alienation of the audience.

Chapter 16

The next topic that I would like to bring up is that in chapter 16, it talks about research proposals. The research proposals are similar to what my group and I are working on as if right now with our center research. Basically, the definition for the research proposal is to perform a research and then provide a report about it (Markel, 444).  During the report proposal there is going to be numerous amounts of drafting and completion reports. There has to be a lot of drafting before constructing the final report and explaining the topic at hand. The next topic that I found was interesting was demonstrating your professionalism. The importance about that is that once you show the readers that you understand the topic, you would also have to keep your promises and deliver whatever it is that was promised from the beginning. The key objective about it is showing the reader that you have pride and perseverance to solve any problem that comes about (Markel, 447).  When writing a proposal you have to take many things under consideration and that is personnel, facilities, and equipment. The personnel are important because it’s basically managers and/or group leaders, which in our case it’s Martin. Facilities talk about the main companies and in our case we could use the Center of Biology and Society (Markel, 449). Lastly, the equipment symbolizes our equipment used when recording data such as, a recording device when giving an interview or the computers we use to get us where we need to be in order to become successful and accomplish our goals. In conclusion, the group and I are working through the project so that we could have enough time to revise anything and to be successful. Thank you.