Nov.4-Nov.8 This Week I study in the Career Departmennt
This week I study in the career department .
On Monday,I met Amanda in her office.The first time we met was in the RA training.She made the presentation of how to make resume.
Now she is a pregnant.She will give birth to a child on next Frebrary.She is a nice lady .
Amanda is the director of the career department.But there is only herself in her office.That's a very small office.There are three thousand students in Lander.But the career dapartment doesn't have a lot of responsibily for students.She has two aspects of working,one is for counselling of students problems of careers and the other is for making presentations for some classes.If students have some problems of resumes,cover letters and what types of jobs they can do ,they will go to Amanda's office and apply for appointments.There were 174 students in one on one appointment with Amanda last year.There were 111 students in one on one appointment with Amanda this spring semester.Some professors will invite Amanda to their classes to introduce how to make resumes.In America,looking for careers is students' own business.University has no resposibility of that.I told Amanda that it was very different from China.In my university,we should try our best to help our students to find good jobs.Instead,American Universities just help their students to get ready for their careers.
Amanda also told me students in some majors are easy to find their jobs such as nursing and compute science major and others are difficult.Different jobs have different salaries.Amanda copied the salaries of different majors.The average starting salary of business is higer than other majors.The average starting salary of business is $60300 one year.The average starting salary of computer science is $64100.The salary of education major is average $40000 one year.
On Tuesday,I observed how Amanda tutor the student to revise her resume.The requirement of resume in America is very different from that in China.There are usually five parts in one resume.They are heading,summary,education,relevant coursework/special projects/co-op eperience/internship/clinial experience and work experience.The student there Amanda helped with here resume was asked to increase some courses she had learnt from her major.Because the student didn't have a lot of intership experiences and she needed the courses to fill up. To my surprise,there are no photos and not any detailed personal information needed in one resume.When I put forward my questions to Amanda,she translated them for me.In America,people don't put their photos or detailed personal information on there resumes.They want to treat everyone equally.The company won't care whether you are male or female,whether you are young or old,whether you are nice or ugly and so on. Even during the interview,the employer can't ask this kind of question such as whether you were married or not.The company only pays attention to what kind of skills and relevant coursework one person has , how long one person has the internship and What kind of skills one person has from the intership.After learning,now I can better understand why many foreign companies emphasis skills .
This week I study in the career department .
On Monday,I met Amanda in her office.The first time we met was in the RA training.She made the presentation of how to make resume.
Now she is a pregnant.She will give birth to a child on next Frebrary.She is a nice lady .
Amanda is the director of the career department.But there is only herself in her office.That's a very small office.There are three thousand students in Lander.But the career dapartment doesn't have a lot of responsibily for students.She has two aspects of working,one is for counselling of students problems of careers and the other is for making presentations for some classes.If students have some problems of resumes,cover letters and what types of jobs they can do ,they will go to Amanda's office and apply for appointments.There were 174 students in one on one appointment with Amanda last year.There were 111 students in one on one appointment with Amanda this spring semester.Some professors will invite Amanda to their classes to introduce how to make resumes.In America,looking for careers is students' own business.University has no resposibility of that.I told Amanda that it was very different from China.In my university,we should try our best to help our students to find good jobs.Instead,American Universities just help their students to get ready for their careers.
Amanda also told me students in some majors are easy to find their jobs such as nursing and compute science major and others are difficult.Different jobs have different salaries.Amanda copied the salaries of different majors.The average starting salary of business is higer than other majors.The average starting salary of business is $60300 one year.The average starting salary of computer science is $64100.The salary of education major is average $40000 one year.
On Tuesday,I observed how Amanda tutor the student to revise her resume.The requirement of resume in America is very different from that in China.There are usually five parts in one resume.They are heading,summary,education,relevant coursework/special projects/co-op eperience/internship/clinial experience and work experience.The student there Amanda helped with here resume was asked to increase some courses she had learnt from her major.Because the student didn't have a lot of intership experiences and she needed the courses to fill up. To my surprise,there are no photos and not any detailed personal information needed in one resume.When I put forward my questions to Amanda,she translated them for me.In America,people don't put their photos or detailed personal information on there resumes.They want to treat everyone equally.The company won't care whether you are male or female,whether you are young or old,whether you are nice or ugly and so on. Even during the interview,the employer can't ask this kind of question such as whether you were married or not.The company only pays attention to what kind of skills and relevant coursework one person has , how long one person has the internship and What kind of skills one person has from the intership.After learning,now I can better understand why many foreign companies emphasis skills .
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Resume Presentation and Resume Doctor
Making the presentation of resume is one of Amanda's job.Amanda told me that some professors would invited her to there classes .The topics of presentations are conclude majoy's celcting,how to choose career and how to make resume.I always think it is very freedom in American classroom.When I went to the classroom with Amanda,I was surprised to find that there were only three students in her classroom.American teachers don't care about scales of classrooms.
Resume Doctor is one activity that is held by the Career department.Students could bring their resumes to the table of Resume Doctor during 1100 to 1300 on Wednesday.Amanda gave them some suggestions to their jobs and modified their resumes on the spot.From Amanda,I knew that there were some companies those fired some people in January.So January is a better month for students to send their resumes.
Making the presentation of resume is one of Amanda's job.Amanda told me that some professors would invited her to there classes .The topics of presentations are conclude majoy's celcting,how to choose career and how to make resume.I always think it is very freedom in American classroom.When I went to the classroom with Amanda,I was surprised to find that there were only three students in her classroom.American teachers don't care about scales of classrooms.
Resume Doctor is one activity that is held by the Career department.Students could bring their resumes to the table of Resume Doctor during 1100 to 1300 on Wednesday.Amanda gave them some suggestions to their jobs and modified their resumes on the spot.From Amanda,I knew that there were some companies those fired some people in January.So January is a better month for students to send their resumes.