Career Fundamentals

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