1. Building a network of contacts to find jobs seems selfish.

It involves acquiring
friendships just to use them for one's personal benefit." Discuss this view.

In a fast-paced world where interruptions are the norm, you allow the person you are networking
with a legitimate reason to pause and reflect. In doing so, you have the opportunity to pause and
reflect too and slow down your frenetic job search activity. A networking conversation allows
you to pay attention to your entire being – your presence as well as how you engage in
conversations. What a great hands-on activity for your interview preparation arsenal! Most offers
come because you establish credibility and likeability via conversations. Go ahead, be “me-
focused” as you prepare for networking because I believe when you do, your behavior during
networking will be “other-focused.” Make this ‘me-focus’ work:

 You can practice sharing your career focus or 90-sec-pitch and receive targeted feedback.
 You can practice behaviors that help you engage and make people curious about your
talents.
 You can learn what questions, situations or personality types make you uncomfortable
and help you be proactive as you work out solutions.

2. Do employers who offer unpaid internships take unfair advantage of students'

knowledge and skills? Under what circumstances might it be a good idea to take an unpaid
internship? When might it not be a good idea?

Unpaid internships are intended to provide valuable experience and contacts to young workers,
while lowering costs and risks to organizations. A successful unpaid internship is similar to
earning good grades in college. Doing a good job leads to increased opportunities for the future
—especially when being evaluated directly against other students or employees. Paid or not,
interns get a first-hand look at what it is like to work for an employer in the real world. A sense
of pride from providing a meaningful product or service that helps others comes with its own set
of benefits and rewards, but don't settle for just that if you're not getting paid during your
internship. Think of the experience as another class you are taking, as opposed to thinking of it
as unpaid work. However, the benefit of this class is that it gives you hands-on experience with
important workplace skills.

3. There are three strategies to group items in CV, explain them.

Three strategies to group items are the Reverse chronological approach, the Functional or skills
approach, and the Accomplishment/Achievements or Highlights approach.

 Reverse chronological organizational layout.

 Functional skill layout- organizes the resume’s contents round three to five areas
particularly important to the job you want. This layout groups related skills.
 An accomplishment layout- foregrounds the most impressive factors about you. It
features a Highlights or Summary section that includes key points from the three
conventional information groups.

4. Is it incorrect to have present, past, and future tense in the same report? In the same
sentence? Explain.

Here, we have present perfect tense, simple past tense and simple future tense all in the same
sentence. We’re mixing different tenses, but they all make sense together to create a logical
sequence of events. The confusion over using multiple verb tenses in one sentence probably
arises because we have heard that we need to maintain verb tense consistency. These two things
are different. Pay particular attention to the “unless” clause in that description – maintaining
consistency of a single verb tense is not an absolute virtue! Verb tenses need to convey a logical
timeline or sequence of events, so if there is a shift in the timeline of when events occurred, your
job isn’t to preserve verb tense consistency at all costs, but rather to mix verb tenses as necessary
to tell a logical story of how and when things happened.

5. "Transitional sentences are unnecessary. They merely add length to a report and thus
run contrary to the goal of conciseness." Discuss.

A well written report is meaningful and to the point. Paragraphs are logically connected. Much
of this is result of good methods to connect information.

6. There are three types of factors that affect the purpose of the report, explain them.

There are 3 types of factors that we shall discuss

1 Subtopics: Subtopics of the overall topic about which the report is concerned. Used in
informational and some analytical reports
2 Hypotheses: Possible explanations of the problem that have to be tested. Used in problem-
solving situations.

3. Comparisons: Problems that include comparison between multiple elements. Bases of

comparison used in evaluative reports.

7. What are the four basic elements of professional talking? How can being conscious of the
elements of talking help us communicate better?

Four basic elements

• Voice quality

– Includes delivery, pitch, speed & volume

– Listen to yourself. Are you too fast, too slow, monotone, high-pitched, low-
pitched, harsh, or pleasant.

– Make a conscious effort to improve what you hear.

• Talking style

– The unique style that distinguishes you

– Notice the facial expression you make or the hand gestures and body movements
that dictate your ease or unease

• Word choice and vocabulary

– The larger your vocabulary the more word choices you have

– Remember the rules on Jargon, Technical Language and Slang

– Avoid using them in a large, mixed audience

• Adaptation to audience

– Fit your message to the intended audience.

– Keep in mind who is your audience.

– Do not interrupt.
 – Do not try to dominate others in conversation.

8. Explain how each type of nonverbal communication relates to speaking and listening.

Non-verbal communication includes facial expressions, the tone and pitch of the voice, gestures
displayed through body language (kinesics) and the physical distance between the
communicators (proxemics).

 Body language
 Use of space
 Use of time
 Paralanguage- component of communication by speech. The hints and signals in the way
words are delivered.

9. "In writing cover messages, just present the facts clearly and without analysis and
interpretation. The facts alone will tell the employer whether he or she wants you". Do you
agree or disagree with this viewpoint? Discuss.

The purpose of the cover letter is to introduce yourself to an organization, demonstrate your
interest in the company or a specific vacancy, draw attention to your resume and motivate the
reader to interview you. Often this letter is the first contact you have with a prospective
employer. Writing a cover letter is one of the important tasks that comes up when applying for a
job opening. The basic objective of cover letter is to gain attention of the prospective employer
and set the base for further information that follows in the resume.

10. While writing a cover letter you can present the information in three orders. List and
describe them.

Common Order: In this order, there must be included education, experience skills at first.

Time Order: In this order, there must have a year by year description which you did.

Job Order : Tell about the requirement and related things why you are perfect for the job in this
order.