Career Fundamentals

Hi everyone,

Just to answer some questions, the final exam will be:

1 Hour long

Based on content covered in week 10-13 from class and tutorials

There will be multiple choice, true or false, and matching questions

Good luck!

Hi everyone,

Welcome back to Comm 299. As i’m sure a number of you are already aware, starting this week, all material covered in class will be examable material. This includes everything said in class, your tutorials as well as everything posted. We will make sure that the only questions we will ask in class are things that is covered across every section.

Blog: Your blog is due on the week of the 21st and should be completely done by your tutorial, your TAs will be checking them in class.

For those of you that already have a blog on blogs.ubc.ca (for comm 101 for example) we would ask that you change the title of your blog to your name for (ex. if your name is Jane Wong, the title of your blog should be Jane Wong’s blog) the TA’s will not mark your blog unless the title is your name!

To make a blog

1) Go to blogs.ubc.ca

2) log in with your cwl account towards the lower right side of the screen

3) After you log in look at the top of your screen. There should be a number of drop downs that say

UBC Blogs, My Account, My Blogs, Notifications.

4) Go to the My Blogs drop down and click on “Create a Blog!”

5) On the next page, fill in your site name (which is your URL), site title (this should be your full name), choose your privacy setting, and then select the appropriate drop downs to say I am creating a course blog for Business Sauder School of.

6) After you have created your blog,  again go to the drop down near the top of the screen and look under “My Blogs”, highlight your cursor over the title of the blog you just created and then select “New post”

7) On that page, make your blog posting, the topic is  listed in the course syllabus and this can be found on Vista.

Hope this helps and see you in class

Jesse

Hi everyone,

We encourage you to attend Me Inc. because it is an opportunity to explore Step 2 on the model called Researching Options.  You can meet industry people and learn lots from them to make an informed option and career decision.

For students in Friday’s classes (March 18) who are going to Me Inc., you are invited to attend another lecture either on Monday from 3-4pm or Wednesday from 3-4pm.  We ask that you contact your TA to arrange to sit in on another one of their tutorials.  If this is not possible join a friend to their tutorial.

Hi everyone,

Hope your interview + prep is going well. Just a quick reminder of two resources we mentioned in class:

1.     The Interview eLearning Module

You can access this by going to the SAUDER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Workshops – Sauder Career Success Cycle : BCom in Vista and scrolling down to below the career cycle.

2.     Interview Stream (set up an account at www.sauder.interviewstream.com)

You can use this to go through a mock interview through your webcam.

Good luck with all your interviews!

No lecture or tutorial from Feb. 21 to Mar. 11 (due to interview assignment).  Classes start again on March 14.

Hi everyone,

Hope you’re enjoying your break, please read through this entire post as it contains important instructions for signing up for the interviews.

Book your interview time slots by following  these  instructions:

1) If you’ve applied for the COMM 299 job on COOL, on Feb 14 at 10:00 am, you should be able to see right as soon as you log in a message that says “You may sign up for 1 interview(s)” – click on the link on the underlined “1 interview(s)” part of the message.

2) Clicking on the link will take you into the “Interviews” tab  under which, by scrolling down you should see a list of the interviews you’ve been shortlisted for.

3) Look for the Comm299 Interview Assignment position and on the right side of the screen above decline interview – click “schedule interview” Please don’t select “decline interview” – bad things will happen if you do

4) Once you clicked schedule interview you’ll be taken to a screen with a drop-down for available dates and interview times on each day – PLEASE ONLY SELECT THE DAY AND TIME WHEN YOU USUALLY HAVE YOUR 299 LECTURE OR TUTORIAL (sorry for the caps), for example if you have class at 1:00pm on Fridays – only select the dates that land on a Friday, and select a time that is between 1:00 pm and 2:45 pm. It is your responsibility to sign up for the right times and we will not be interviewing you if you come to a time that isn’t the same as your tutorial or lecture’s.

5) After selecting for the right time, click submit

6) Booking CLOSES on February 21st at noon (12:00 pm) . Please select your time as early as possible to make sure it fits in yours schedule.

There will be no class during this three week period.  Your only responsibility is to prepare, show up for your interview time and perform as best as you can.

Take careful note of the room and time in which you have your interview.  Arrive 10 minutes prior to your interview start time and wait outside the room for your interviewer to come out and get you.

Remember:  Greet your interviewer with a smile and professional hand shake and realize that your interview starts the moment you first greet your interviewer.

Interview Cancellations:  No cancellations permitted ater February 21 at noon.

If an emergency occurs you need to provide documentation to Katie Tichauer in the UGO or by email at comm299@sauder.ubc.ca.  To cancel your interview you will have to do so by midnight two nights before your interview (for example: if your interview is at 3:30pm on Wednesday, you will have to cancel before midnight on Monday night)  NOTE: if you cancel (AFTER FEBRUARY 21 AT NOON) you run the risk of there being no more available interviews.  If this is the case, you will receive a 0/20 for your assignment.

Classes will start again during the week of March 14, 2011 at which time we will start covering exam material.

Good luck on your interview.  We look forward to seeing you soon.

Hi everyone, hope you’ve all had a great weekend – just a few notes on attendance and on COOL

Attendance:

Please bring your iClickers to every class, although we have taken down your attendance in the past if you did not bring your clicker, we will not be doing so in the future. We are moving into the 6th week of this course and it is getting very difficult to keep track of all the clickers that are not being brought in. We are sorry about the inconvenience but clickers were mandatory for this course for the purpose of attendance. If you wish for your attendance to be counted, please bring them to every class.

COOL

Ensure that you can sign into COOL before Feb. 11 (with user name and password) in order to submit your resume/cover letter assignment on COOL.  Instructions will be provided and shown in lecture starting Friday Feb. 4 on how to submit it.  Here they are in written form aswell.

1. Student logs into COOL

2. Click Jobs (if their profile is not complete they will have to complete it before they can see jobs

3. Search under key words: Comm 299 resume/cover letter assignment

4. Click on job title to read instructions

5. If student has not yet uploaded their one file in COOL under documents they will have to upload it first

6. Click drop down menu and select file student wants to submit (the one they just uploaded for example)

7. Submit

Hi everyone,

The career center has seen a lot of interest in booking appointments with either the Career Peer Advisors as well as the career coaches. The system is set up in a weird way however in that one of the career coaches Russell Garrett will not appear as a coach you can book an appointment with  unless you select “Comm 299” under Appointment Type. If you need help reviewing your resume or for the Comm299 assignments please select Comm299, book a time with Russell and he will be happy to help you out.

Hope this is helpful

Jesse

Hey everyone,

Hope you’re all having a great Wednesday evening/ Thursday Morning. Please read this blog entry in detail, there’s a couple of things that you need to do before next class. The information on how to find all of this content is on a pdf file kindly created by Laura on your home screen.

1) Choose 1 of the 4 job postings on Vista for next class.

As you all probably know you have to choose 1 of the 4 job postings for your resume/cover letter assignment. The TA’s are covering some of that next class so please choose a job posting before then

2) Chronlogical resumes

The information regarding chron0logical resumes is on Vista, detailed instructions on how to access it is on Laura’s PDF file. For those of you who are familiar with the Sauder Career Cycle its under 4.2.3 Resumes, under types of resumes.

3) Strength quest

Please complete your strength quest evaluation when your TA asks you to, the strength quest codes are under the My Grades icon, on the sidebar of your vista under My Tools.

From there you can go into the Asisgnments Folder from the main page and then the Interview Assignments Folder where you will find an instruction sheet directing you on how you can use Strength Quest as well as a login link to Strength Quest itself.

Hope this helps