Week 5: Assignment

Week 5 - Career Outlook

I Have a Degree in Journalism: Now What?

Your degree can lead you to a variety of opportunities for you. However, in order to pursue any opportunity, you must be prepared to share your interests, experiences, and qualifications with others. For this Career Outlook, you will write and record an elevator speech, create a cover letter, and put together an application package for one of the following: a job or graduate school.

Writing an Elevator Speech or Bio

Writing a Cover Letter

For resources on writing cover letters in each area, refer to the following links:

Journalism/Media jobs

Cover Letters: 4 Tips to Help You Win the Job (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Great Cover Letters: Sample Opening Lines (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Graduate School Applications

How to Write a Letter of Application for Graduate Schools (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Applying to Graduate School (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

For this Career Outlook assignment, students must

· Identify a job or graduate program,to which they would like to apply.

· Create a video in which they present a one-minute elevator speech using the Screencast-O-Matic (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. .

· Compose a one page cover letter applying to their selected job or graduate program.

· Explain next steps to complete their application for a job or graduate program in a 250 word essay.

The Career Outlook Assignment

· Must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. .

· Must include a separate title page with the following:

· Title of paper

· Student’s name

· Course name and number

· Instructor’s name

· Date submitted

In order to complete this assignment, you will use a platform called Screencast-O-Matic (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. . Please review the Screencast-O-Matic Quick-Start Guide (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. instructions in order to get started. This guide will familiarize you with this tool.

All submissions require an upload of the video to the classroom. Submission of a link to a video does not fulfill the submission requirements.

The video portion of the assignment will be submitted for grading via the Week 5 - Career Outlook Assignment Video Submission .

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.