Journals
These journals reflect my weekly experiences as an athletic training student. Each journal reflects either an actual patient contact experience, or something I am working on in my athletic training courses.
This week, I was able to attend the job fair with Amanda Gardener and it was really eye opening to me. I have never really applied to many jobs in the past besides jobs that are either on campus or a part time position, so I do not have many experiences with interviews and how to apply for applications. However, for my future career job I have been really hesitant to starting looking for different opportunities for myself. I have not really been job searching as often as I should be, however, being able to attend this job fair really allowed me to see what options I should start looking for. I haven’t really been aware of different websites I could get on in order to find jobs in certain areas. So knowing which types of websites I can begin to start looking for jobs will be very helpful. During this job fair, I also refreshed my knowledge on elevators speeches. When I made my first elevator speech it was not the best. So reviewing how to prepare and what to say during my elevator speech will be helpful if I ever need to perform a real elevator speech to a future employer. I want to be able to perfect my elevator speech, so when I do have the opportunity to meet a future employer I can use those lines to tell them everything they need to know in 30 seconds. Lastly, during the job fair Amanda also talked about how to be professional when preparing for interviews. She mentioned that the interviewee should know as much background information on either that company or the school you are wanting to be apart of to be able to bring up reasons why you would like to be apart of their program. I had never really heard of knowing a lot of background information about the program or company one is interested in, but I am glad I do know now because I can use this information when applying to graduate schools to show them my interest in them. Lastly, Amanda mentioned that having a good resume is critical to have when applying for different programs. As every employee or student will be applying for the same position, having a good resume will catch the employers eyes when reading multiple resumes. Being able to put previous jobs in order for the employer to see what is the most important will help the employer see the difference you contain compared to another candidate.
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April 2019
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