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How to Write a Great Resume: Step #2 - Professional Profile

11/1/2020

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A professional profile is to your resume as a thesis is your English paper or speech.
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If written with high-impact in mind and without grammatical errors, a resume profile can get the document through application scanners and provide a recruiter a quick summary of the key highlights in a resume. The difference between a good profile and a great profile could be the difference between a recruiter reading your resume (great profile) or immediately passing on it and moving to the next candidate (bad or good profile)!
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In this blog, we continue our resume writing journey (see our first post on the header) by providing a before and after look at our profile summaries.

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Want an A? Need help? Just ask!

9/29/2020

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Let's be honest!

Let’s be honest, college students do not often utilize the resources that are offered at their university. In my case, I wasn't using the Center for Learning Support Services at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

​I personally have been struggling this semester with managing my class workload. However, this has changed since 
I reached out for help. Recently, I've felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. I wish I had  asked for help sooner. 

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3 Amazing Tools n’ Tricks in Microsoft Teams to Keep Teachers, Advisors, and Students Connected

6/4/2020

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​by Monika Fudala (CMST student), Tim Keown (CMST alumnus), and Craig Engstrom (CMST faculty)
The Communication Career Council provides Southern Illinois University Carbondale students with career-ready skills training and job preparation in business communication and organizational communication. Because we are preparing ourselves for the workplaces of the future, we try to stay ahead of workplace trends. Therefore, when Covid-19 came onto the scene and led to cancellation of classes and in-person meetings, we thought to ourselves— “no problem!” We'll just keep using Microsoft Teams.

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"I Was Just Called A Racist, Now What?"

5/29/2020

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by Brent Palmer

In this, my third and final installment on communication and race, I will be using Ijeoma Oluo’s book So You Want to Talk About Race once more, in order to discuss the chapter, “I Just Got Called a Racist, what do I do Now?” 

Talking about race is a difficult task. Race is rarely talked about outside of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and February in primary school, meaning an everyday part of communication on race is lost on many Americans. When brought up in history books, some issues can be recontextualized to fit the broader narrative that keeps society the way it is. This narrative, when critically reviewed, is a part of a white power structure, that privileges white people over people of color. Many people call this white privilege, but this systemic construction of power against people of color is also a definition of white supremacy, also encompassing the idea of a racial (white) state. 


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(Not So) Microaggressions

5/27/2020

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by Brent Palmer
In this, my second installment on communication and race, I will explain what a microaggression is and how both the sender and receiver of a racial microaggression can best facilitated communication through Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk about Race.  
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Ijeoma defines microaggressions as: “small daily insults and indignities perpetrated against marginalized or oppressed people because of their affiliation with that marginalized or oppressed group.” (p. 169).  Though they are called microaggressions, the feelings which come from the consistent indignities are anything but micro.  


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