Cover Letter

I really like the article on the cover letters. I do agree with the advice given. The advice about writing the cover letter to each individual company, I feel, was very useful advice. This will help show the company that you are interested in them. It shows them that you not only took the time to write a personal letter to them but that you also took the time to research information about them to put into your cover letter. The only information that I could see not being true all the time is writing three paragraphs each in each letter. I feel that in some situations you would be able to combine some of the information into two paragraphs.
I found the check list to be the most useful. It was very direct and I feel like it would be very useful right before you sent out your cover letter. It would be a great way of double checking to make sure you included all the information you needed before you sent this to companies. I was unaware of adding the P.S. down at the bottom. I would have never thought of adding a P.S. to a cover letter and having that be seen as professional. I will look to see if I can add the P.S. for my next cover letter.

Client Project

I really liked a lot of the ideas we came up with in class. I think one of my favorite ideas was Kristen's idea about the cook book. I think that would be a very effective away of reaching the Clemson community and giving students ideas about they area able to prepare healthy meals. I personally do not have much experience with cooking so a cook book would come in handy for me me personally. Having a youtube video that went along with some of the directions would also help those who may need to see it being made instead of just reading it.

An idea that I have other than the cook book would be a weekend tournament. Have the student body create teams to go and participate in either a single sport tournament or do something like the Olympics and have multiple sports. If we did the Olympic sports idea we could have the teams select members off their team to compete in the event (have the number of events a person can particpate in be limited).

I do not have any concerns about my group. I think that I am in a very good group and we will come up with some really good ideas. The only question I really have about the project is if each group is going to do an event or if each group comes up with ideas and the class does something. From the way the client meeting went and the way class discussion is going it sounds like it would be a class project, but my understanding of the project was that each group would come up with something.

Interview Mistakes

I did agree with the article. I think that it gave a lot of really important tips about how to handle the interview. Some of the information I felt may have been more common sense and they could have replace with other information. However that common sense information is definitely something you want to mess up on.

I have had an interview before. I worked for Carmax for a year and they had a three back to back interviews that you had to go through before you got the job. The first one was the worst because it was my first job interview. I was a little nervous for that one, but the other two went really well. The last interview I had that day was the best. The guy who was interviewing me had a wife that graduated from the same college I was attending at the time. We talked about the school for most of the interview.

The advise I have for people going into an interview is to be your self. It makes it a lot more comfortable for you and for the employer. If you are just being your self then it will make answering the questions easier and you will not have to worry about being truthful

Free Topic

For my free blog I am going to talk about the frisbee tournament that I played in this weekend. This was the Joint Summit Tournament for both boys and girls and it was played here at Clemson. For the girls, there were eight teams from NC, SC and GA, that were present. The teams included, for the girls: Eastern Carolina (ECU), Georgia (UGA), Georgia Southern, Georgia Tech, James Madison (JMU), USC, and College of Charelston. Each girls team played four games on Saturday. Clemson played against UGA's B team for our first game on Saturday and we ended up winning. For our second game we played against ECU, but we did not win this game. We also lost to USC that day. Since we had lost two out of our three games that morning, our first playoff game would be against GT and we won. Our win against GT gareenteed us at least fourth place in the tournament. Sunday morning we played our second playoff game against ECU again and lost to them for the second time this weekend. This meant that we would be playing against USC again for third place. We had lost to USC the day before 10 to 5 so we were determined to at least close the gap in the score. We played our hardest and ended up winning the game 11 to 10 (the max that could be scored was 11 for this game). We were all really excited to beat USC since we had lost them last year in a tournament (we only scored two points on them in that game). I am proud of the team for this win and finishing third out of eight teams.