Sunday, March 30, 2008

Free Write: My Weekend

On Friday, I hung out with friends and relaxed a little bit. Saturday was my busy day! I woke up at 6:00 am and got ready to go to Carolina Cup. It took me awhile to get dressed and to get everything ready to go. We left about out about 8:00 and started heading towards Columbia. (We probably should have left earlier, so that we would not have got into so much traffic). A small drive ended up turning into about a 5 hour drive due to traffic. We had a great time while we were there. The fun all ended when it started pouring down rain. and we left. We made it back to Clemson late last night and grabbed a pizza to eat. Today, I slept in and then met my Business Writing group so that we could finish up our proposal. I have to admit, our proposal looks pretty good. We spent a long time this afternoon revising and going back over our project. Tonight I hope to watch TV and go to bed early!

Sunday, March 16, 2008

"Lying on Your Resume" Article

After reading this article, I am blown away that so many people actually lie on their resumes. The article said somewhere around 50% of people lie when writing a resume. I was really blown away with the story about Mary at the beginning of the article. She got fired from her job for saying that she had a master's degree. Mary obviously did not think the scenario out very well. It seems to me that it would be fairly easy for a company to find out what your degrees are in and if you have actually received these degrees. I do not understand the reasoning behind someone wanting to lie about their academics, work experience, etc. I grew up in a home where lying was not the right way to reach goals. I feel that by people lying on resumes, the qualified people for the job are actually the ones that suffer from the bad decisions of the people lying. This is not fair! I do hope that employers start cracking down on people that lie on resumes. I feel that people should not only lose their job for this type of dishonesty, but that there should also be legal action taken for certain situations.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Class Presentations

Approximately two weeks ago our class did powerpoint presentations on any topic we wanted. There were a few presentations that really stood out to me during that week. Johnsie did a powerpoint presentation on waterfalls around the area. I love the outdoors, so I thought this one was very interesting. The pictures really grabbed my attention and made me want to go see the actual waterfalls. I also thought Rene did a good job with his powerpoint topic of traveling to Mexico. He gave us some good tips to avoid running into trouble. I thought it was very crazy when he talked about giving money to "bad cops" in order to get out of situations with them putting something illegal in your car or saying you did something you did not do. The presentations in our class taught me a lot about many different things. I feel as if every person in our class had at least one positive aspect to their presentation. I thought this was a memorable assignment and I am gradually starting to be less nervous while giving presentations, due to assignments like these.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Mock Interview Reflection

On Wednesday I attended my mock interview with Mrs. Rogers. I believe the interview went well. I was definitely nervous when I arrived at the interview. I should have arrived on time instead of getting there early. Since I arrived early, I ended up becoming even more nervous than I already was by waiting. I should have listened more to the information/advice we read about at the beginning of the semester on interviews, and maybe I would have been less nervous.

Mrs. Rogers made me feel very comfortable throughout the interview. She asked some questions that made me really think. I was not able to answer one of her questions, I believe, as well as I should have. She said overall I did a pretty good job. There are a few things I still need to work on before going for a real job/graduate school interview. She gave me some suggestions to improve my resume and my cover letter. She also gave me some more information on the graduate program that I would like to get into at Clemson. The interview was a great experience and really helped to prepare me for upcoming interviews in the real world!