why getting a job is important. different problems when getting/ looking for a job. tips to be successsful in getting a job.

1. Career Readiness Assessment
Competency
Princess Asonganyi
Hanna Blaylock
Olivia Bricker
Jordan Heiskell
Marisa Monser
Hannah Wirey

2. How Does Having a Good Resume Help
Get a Job?
● Resume determines the level of professionality
● Resume helps the employer understand your skills
● Having a resume shows your responsible

3. What is a Good Resume?
A good resume is important. It gives the employer a
bit of a insight to who you are, your ability, and the
impact you could have to the job. Having a well
written resume is important when looking for a job.
Having a good resume means having good skills;
skills that comply with the job you are applying for.
Having good volunteer hours . Volunteer hours in
the form that you are applying for shows how
interested you are in the job.

4. What are Good Skills Needed on a
Resume?
● A person that is honest
● Good time management
● Being able to solve problems
● Having a positive mindset
● Being able to work in team
● Having good self esteem
● Being physically fit and having good work ethics

5. Negative use of power in the world and in
the workplace
It is hard to understand how someone is able to influence seemingly normal people to kill
other human beings and be alright with it. A murderer is a person with power. Because of
that, his power is negative and he uses that power to take control of people.
People claim positions and in company some people think they should do only what is told
of them and not go the extra limit to make their job worth it. Any task an employee is asked
to do — as long as it isn’t unethical, immoral, or illegal — is a task an employee should be willing
to do. Of course great employees notice problems and jump in without being asked.
People use their power to lead obtaining information so they can tell you what to do when the time comes. A leader obtains the information
they have power because they know some type of knowledge that other people don’t know and that information can make or break a person.
You ask questions, questions give you answers and answers give you power. Knowing what someone doesn’t gives you an extra…
People see president Donald Trump’s power as negative. Because he has the most power around the world being the president. Trump uses
his power to aggravate people in the form of starting a war. He uses Twitter to talk about people and with that builds up his power because he
has people around who also agree and people who don’t.

6. Leadership
Being a strong leader can help you get a job
because you have skills that others may not
possess, such as: responsibility, motivation, and
proper communication. Companies want people
who are motivated so they will get whatever they
need done in a timely manner.

7. How can Someone Build up Their
Leadership
You can improve your leadership skills by talking to an upperclassmen
about their experience and how they learned leadership. There are many
different approaches to leadership and it’s important to find what works
best for you.

8. What is power?
Power is being above someone or something; where people
believe you’re in control Power can have a positive or negative
connotation. People with power could influence others.

9. Positive Power in the World and in the
Workplace
Positive power can be used in great ways. It
can be used to influence others to make a
change that will leave a great impact such as
using less plastic. In the workplace this can be
used to help better the company overall.

10. What are different types of power?
There are two categories of power that have different types of
power into it. The first categories is known as the formal. In the
formal category, there is coercive, reward, and legitimate. Coercive
power have to deceiving and threatening them into doing as what
you say. Reward power is when someone gives a type of incentive
to those who finish a task. When you already have a position that
entitles powers, it is called legitimate power. Now the second
categories is called personal power. Within this category there is
expert and referent. Expert power comes from those who have
knowledge that others do not know. Then there is referent power is
gained by those who give their trust and respect to the person

11. There are different attributes that one should have to be a successful leader. To
start off with, they should be willing to interact with people and take responsibility
for the actions and decisions of a group. A leader should be able to motivate their
group into doing their very best and be able to understand how to support those
and their peers to help them. In order to get anything done, the group must have the
skill to accomplish the task and have the willpower to finish the task. The most
important part of being a leader to people is have the power over those and being
able to communicate with those who will be helping them.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_Culture/1

12. Religion and how it affects a career
Religion does not have a huge impact on any career. Title VII of
the civil rights act of 1964 ‘ prohibits discrimination by covered
employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national
origin.’
(https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/civil_rights_a
ct.html)

13. What is culture?
Culture is not just one thing that
can be explained. Culture is
made of different components
to make different cultures.

14. Culture difference in the Chinese
Workplace
https://youtu.be/dI0LjEn1TZA

15. How does culture affect your career?
The culture you are born into should not directly affect the probability of actually
attaining that job.
Culture may however affect the type of career you want to pursue
Personal religious beliefs could also influence what you may want to pursue

16. Religion
Largest Religions in the world:
1. Christianity - 2.22 Billion
followers
2. Islam - 1.605 Billion followers
3. Hinduism - 1.05 Billion
followers
Religion is the service and
worship of God or the
supernatural.
http://www.5tjt.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/all-religious-symbols-gra
phic.jpg

17. Race vs. Ethnicity
● Race is the biological aspect of skin color, skin tone, eye color, hair color, and
tendencies for certain diseases and health problems
● Race is not a learned trait that can be altered, but unchangeable biological
features
● Ethnicity is an embraced culture and way of life
● Ethnicity is a learned way of life that can be identified through beliefs, actions,
and customs
● Race is not a choice of identification, however, ethnicity can be embraced and
identified
http://www.differencebetween.net/science/nature/difference-between-ethnicity-and-race/

18. How Race and Ethnicity Affect Getting a Job
● A sociologist from Northwestern University did a study on Milwaukee, Wisconsin based
on race between black and white people applying for the same jobs
● It was found that black people with a criminal record were the least likely to get a call back
at 5% while a white person with a criminal record was still somewhat likely with a 17%
likelihood
● Race still plays a key role in the getting a job today even though people cannot choose
their race
https://www.epi.org/publication/webfeatures_snapshots_archive_09172003/
● An ethnic-sounding name could affect your chances of being contacted for business
● English-sounding names from resumes in Canada were 35-40% more likely to be
contacted than other ethnicities (25%)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/how-an-ethnic-sounding-name-may-affect-t
he-job-hunt/article555082/

19. White and Black Employment
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=xoiaLr9SAAE
● Unemployment rate in black people are
double that of white people
● 5% white unemployment rate vs 9.9% in
black people in 1954
● 6.6% in white unemployment and 12.6% in
black people as of 2013
● The unemployment rate has stayed
relatively the same for decades
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08
/21/through-good-times-and-bad-black-unemp
loyment-is-consistently-double-that-of-whites/

20. Gender
What is Gender?
● the state of being male or female (typically used
with reference to social and cultural differences
rather than biological ones).
Effect Getting a Job?
● Men are more likely to expect higher jobs than
women during their career.
● About 44% of men expect a raise more than a
woman does
● Women’s expectations tend to be much lower than
a man’s.
○ Society tells women that they cannot
“overpower/overcome” men when it comes to
the workplace.

21. Stereotypes in Workplace
● There are a lot of stereotypes when it comes to being in a
workplace..
a. Single vs. Married
■ When a man or women is single in the workplace most of their
married co-workers believe that those who are single don’t
worry about their workplace as much
■ They also believe that because someone is single that, that
person will have more time to work since they have no family
and or significant other to come home to.
b. Children vs. No Children
■ Most applies to women
■ Makes women feel guilty at work because they feel as though
they have to juggle their work and childcare responsibilities.
■ Employees who don’t have children feel resentful when they
have to cover for co-workers who are frequently absent
because of their children
c. Domestic Lifestyle Choices
■ Non-traditional family settings don’t get the same respect as a
traditional domestic lifestyle choices

22. Music Education ( Jaylon, Hanna B and Marisa )
We chose to be Music Education majors because…
We love music and want to inspire students to love it as well. Along with that, there is a
correlation between music and a higher intelligence.

23. Elementary Education
● Hannah W, Olivia & Princess
○ We chose to be an Elementary
Education major because…
■ We enjoy being around kids
■ We want to teach kids to love
learning and to love coming to
school everyday
■ Inspiring kids to learn what
they want to do in life or what
they want to be when they
grow up
■ To put my own techniques into
how we want to teach the
younger generations

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