Venturing from the academic setting to the workplace is not something that all college graduates are prepared for. Many students believe their education alone will qualify them for a position in their chosen career field. This is not the reality. The workplace today is looking for candidates that do not merely possess a degree in an applicable field, but also the proven skills required to survive and thrive in the workplace. Academic scholarship alone is not sufficient proof of these capabilities.
It is for these reasons that I deliberately designed my graduate education to include a variety of learning experiences aimed at the procurement of dynamic and broad experiences, thus providing potential employers with an opportunity to verify my qualification for a position within their company. As Cristeen Custer, Assistant Vice-President of Communications and Marketing for Winona State University, says, work experience is what hiring employees are looking for and without this you most likely will not be hired.
It is for these reasons that I deliberately designed my graduate education to include a variety of learning experiences aimed at the procurement of dynamic and broad experiences, thus providing potential employers with an opportunity to verify my qualification for a position within their company. As Cristeen Custer, Assistant Vice-President of Communications and Marketing for Winona State University, says, work experience is what hiring employees are looking for and without this you most likely will not be hired.
Employers are looking for candidates that are not only good writers, but who are tech savvy and therefore capable of communicating electronically.
Candidates need to be able to go beyond Word programs and Excel worksheets. Custer explains, “All businesses want to know that their ideas and products will reach their audience via web platforms, such as websites, and other forms of social media.”
Through a variety of work and educational experiences, I feel that I possess engaging and emotive writing skills, along with technical design and communication skills. Additionally, I embody the initiative required to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of a writing-focused job aimed at meeting the needs of your company as well as the community. My passionate and compelling voice, along with my creative and constructive ideas, blend perfectly with my social networking and electronic communications capabilities, creating an ideal candidate for a position within your company.
My educational coursework has been both dynamic and broad. I have studied literature and composition, both of which have taught me creative and analytical thinking skills. I have taken specific coursework in creative nonfiction writing, storytelling, and am in the process of completing a creative nonfiction graduate thesis. This coursework has brought me down a path cloaked in highly emotive verbal and written storytelling, facilitating a meticulous study of rhetoric, including the functional and deliberate use of poetic devices for the purpose of cogent expressions.
Throughout my education, I have studied the form, audience, and purpose of many different kinds of communication including forms of technical communication that can be found in the workplace. One of the common themes that I have heard repeatedly in the classroom and through classroom reading materials centers on the specificity of document genres to specific workplace audiences and objectives.
I have made successful contributions to the various positions I have held. From business management as owner of Dressel Built to working as an instructor of college-level reading & writing at WSU and Western.
Teaching these courses has provided me with an on-going opportunity to orchestrate the instruction of analytical reading skills alongside the acquisition of composition skills to an ever-changing demographic of college-level learners. Instruction responsibilities required acute attention to one’s students and the imperative need to maintain their attention in order to maximize their learning. For this reason, I use the art of storytelling as a part of my every day speaking methodology. My intensive focus on the real world applications of their reading and writing lessons, along with the various genres of writing they explored and created—both academic and technical —have enabled me to practice the skills I have acquired through my own graduate studies.
I've then had the opportunity to carry these skill sets into my role as senior account executive for a multi-media marketing organization. This later work has been equally rewarding as I utilize a solution-minded attitude from the prospecting stage through the management of existing customers accounts. I believe this is a business advisor perspective to sales and the right attitude to have as one goes into aggressive new account acquisition and toward the goal of increasing existing account revenue. Without understanding the marketing landscape, as well as being willing to vigorously research a prospect, one will never be able to truly "sell" anything with any kind of ethical or moral basis behind their recommendation.
Through a variety of work and educational experiences, I feel that I possess engaging and emotive writing skills, along with technical design and communication skills. Additionally, I embody the initiative required to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of a writing-focused job aimed at meeting the needs of your company as well as the community. My passionate and compelling voice, along with my creative and constructive ideas, blend perfectly with my social networking and electronic communications capabilities, creating an ideal candidate for a position within your company.
My educational coursework has been both dynamic and broad. I have studied literature and composition, both of which have taught me creative and analytical thinking skills. I have taken specific coursework in creative nonfiction writing, storytelling, and am in the process of completing a creative nonfiction graduate thesis. This coursework has brought me down a path cloaked in highly emotive verbal and written storytelling, facilitating a meticulous study of rhetoric, including the functional and deliberate use of poetic devices for the purpose of cogent expressions.
Throughout my education, I have studied the form, audience, and purpose of many different kinds of communication including forms of technical communication that can be found in the workplace. One of the common themes that I have heard repeatedly in the classroom and through classroom reading materials centers on the specificity of document genres to specific workplace audiences and objectives.
I have made successful contributions to the various positions I have held. From business management as owner of Dressel Built to working as an instructor of college-level reading & writing at WSU and Western.
Teaching these courses has provided me with an on-going opportunity to orchestrate the instruction of analytical reading skills alongside the acquisition of composition skills to an ever-changing demographic of college-level learners. Instruction responsibilities required acute attention to one’s students and the imperative need to maintain their attention in order to maximize their learning. For this reason, I use the art of storytelling as a part of my every day speaking methodology. My intensive focus on the real world applications of their reading and writing lessons, along with the various genres of writing they explored and created—both academic and technical —have enabled me to practice the skills I have acquired through my own graduate studies.
I've then had the opportunity to carry these skill sets into my role as senior account executive for a multi-media marketing organization. This later work has been equally rewarding as I utilize a solution-minded attitude from the prospecting stage through the management of existing customers accounts. I believe this is a business advisor perspective to sales and the right attitude to have as one goes into aggressive new account acquisition and toward the goal of increasing existing account revenue. Without understanding the marketing landscape, as well as being willing to vigorously research a prospect, one will never be able to truly "sell" anything with any kind of ethical or moral basis behind their recommendation.
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