Course Outline for The Fearless Resume

Course Description:

This course will inform and educate the students about writing a resume that communicates exactly who they are, thus helping them to find the job they are destined to land! Through a series of written exercises, and video and audio presentations, the students will become prepared to communicate their qualifiable and quantifiable accomplishments and value to a hiring manager. They will produce a resume highlighting their accomplishments and skills, and depict a multidimensional view of who they really are.

Prerequisite skills:

None.

Expected Student Outcomes:

Upon completion of the Fearless Resume course, the student should be able to:

1. Write a resume that gets results and interviews.
2. Communicate their value to a hiring manager.
3. Define their qualifiable and quantifiable accomplishments.
4. Highlight and describe their core competencies/transferable skills.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the Fearless Resume course, the student should be able to:

1. List the critical parts of a resume.
2. Discuss in their own words how each critical part of the resume applies to them.
3. Define their work experience and accomplishments in reverse chronological order under the “professional experience” part of the resume.
4. Design the layout and format of their resume to include the critical parts and the content from each part of the resume using a resume template.
5. Utilize correct punctuation, spelling, capitalization and grammar in their cover letters.
6. Document the facts of their professional history and write a 1 to 3 page resume depending on the length of their job history.
7. List their quantifiable and qualifiable accomplishments.
8. Describe in their own words, their core competencies and transferable skills.
9. Communicate their values and interests and provide that information in the resume under the professional heading of professional associations or community service.
10. Learn how to attract people that value their history.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the Fearless Resume course, the student should be able to:

1. Write a resume that secures them interviews and lands them their ideal job.
2. Communicate their value and transferable skills to a hiring manager.

Methods of Presentation:

Writing assignments

Audio Presentations

Video Presentations

Typical Assignments:

Written and Lecture with visual examples of the components of resumes, resume writing process i.e. “day in the life document”, sample resumes and a document outlining what hiring managers are looking for.

Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:

Homework assignments relating to the course materials.

Final project-

1. Write a Resume
2. Write a list of 6-8 core competencies and define each one and how they apply in a work situation.
3. Provide a list of transferable skills.

Textbook(s):

none

Special Student Materials.

Course handouts. (will need a binder to assemble)

Internet access

How to Blog a Book A Step-by-Step Workshop about Writing & Publishing Manuscripts on the Internet One Post at a Time

Lesson #1: Introduction

• What is a blog?
• Who can be a blogger?
• Why blog a book?
• Can a blog become a book?

How to Prepare to Blog Your Book

Choose topic

• What subjects can I blog about?
• Can any blog become a book?
• Does my blog content determine my book outline or does my book outline determine my blog content?

Get clear on angle

Know what you need to write—research, books, experts, etc.—line this up

Are you passionate about the topic?

Why do you want to write this blog?

Are you committed to writing regularly?

Will you follow through?

Does this support your business, soul’s purpose, goals in life, etc.?

Lesson #2: Start with a Business Plan (part 1)

Wearing a Business Hat:

Deciding if Your Idea has Wings to Fly in Cyberspace

• Why bother to start with a business plan/proposal
• The parts of a proposal and how to use them to analyze your blog/book

Introduction

Overview

Markets

Subsidiary Rights

Spin-offs

Competing Titles/Blogs

Complementary Titles/Blogs

Resources Needed to Complete the Book

Lesson #3: Start with a Business Plan (part 2)

Wearing a Business Hat:

Giving Your Blogged Book Wings to Fly in Cyberspace

Promotion

About the Author

Mission Statement

Author’s Platform

Lesson #4: Start with a Business Plan (part 3)

Wearing a Writing Hat: Conceptualizing Your Blogged Book

The Outline

List of Chapters

Chapter Summaries

Lesson #5: Create Your Blog and Begin Blogging Your Book

Set up a Blog

Writing Your Posts/Chapters

Writing for the Internet

Be Conversational

What tone should they use?

What style should they use?

Use Keywords

What are keywords?

How do you find and use them?

Why do you want to use keywords?

The Advantage of Writing on a Schedule

Do you want to write every day, twice a week, once week, etc?

Why is this good?

Why is this bad?

The Advantage Scheduling Your Writing

What does it mean to schedule posts?

What is the advantage?

What is the disadvantage?

Can you do both?

Lesson #6: Making Sure the “World” Knows You’ve Published in Cyberspace

Ping! Your Blog has been Published!

What is a ping?

How do you set up your blog to get pinged?

Becoming a Savvy Social Networker

Tweeting your blog to Twitter

What is Twitter?

How do you tweet a blog post?

Sharing Links on Facebook

How to share a link

Lesson #7: I’m Done. What Now?

Creating a POD book

Blog into book programs

E-books

Traditional publishing options

Additional products and services

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