Part 5: pg 275-305 Harty - Resumes

Part 5:


recruiting managers are the toughest audience

* they all differ!



with resumes and cover letters the reader quiclkly glances over for:

-written & oral communication skills

-computer skills

-interpersonal skills

-self reliance and initaitve

-a sense of what the world and work demands

-specific skills

-a sense of business/personal ethics

-time mgt

*you are not expected to excel in all areas!



like all writing, all the formating and and techniques in world will not make up for the message!

it is the message that is most important.

you can have the best looking resume in the world but it has to have the "message"



what is the message for a resume?

the reason the people reading are reading them.

!what can the candidate do for us?!!!



Why use a resume?

purpose is to convey a message!

**there are tons of conflicting advice***



Giving your message?

your language is "I want"

employee language is "I need"

to be effective you can create resues and letters in your language that will be read by employers in theirs.



learn as much about the industry as possible so that you will be better able to understand the company needs and ways in which you could be helpful.


Even if you are going to approach the employer in person, practice writing a letter

Focus on the interviewer's needs, not your wants

The Importance of Knowing what the job is all about:
using prose can help you put into words the things you want to convey to the interviewer



LETTERS OF APPLICATION

hard to figure out

Resumes should be well organized, neat, professional-looking and free of grammatical errors

Paragraphs should outline who you are and what you want, why you wrote to the employer and areas of mutual interest, special talents, and should suggest a course of action

Hard Work and Attention to Detail Make ofr a Good Letter
Editing and rewriting is very important

Don't Delegate the Job of letter writing
Write your own letter, and use an outline

-The value of a resume is often in the practice more than the document itself






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RESUME PREPARATION


-Using single spacing can draw less attention to less-than-impressive items

-Organize your qualifications into relevant groups and be sure to have a good reason for including a qualification or work experience

Nancy Jones- A Good Resume Made Better
fig 2 pg 288


Janet Smith- The Proper Use of Headlines
fig 4 pg 293
she needs to describe what she did so they can tell about her qualifications.
Key, Act like a newspaper editor.


Mark Meyers- The Functional Resume
Mark Meyers got the job because he created a resume based on function pg 299 fig 5

Covnetional way may be problematic
Meyers wanted to emphasis his public relations and promotion experience.

Preparing a Resume for a Specific Job
they should cater to the employee and what they are looking for and how you can meet those needs. You may have to adapt and think outside the box.


Bruce Gregory Robertson- A Resume Reflecting an Active Mind and Body
Employers look at Potential! Not what they know but what they can learn!

pg 300

Michelle Trio- The Curriculum Vitae
The course of life in Latin.
It is a resume for academic positions and as such does not need a statement of goals or interest.

Focus on employer needs (Same)
but employers are not just looking to hire people who can teach, but rather who bring prestige to the program!

The Job Objective
a resume should open with an objective

CAREER INTEREST is a good title for this section because it leads directly to the purpose
pg 303

One Page or Two?
1 page is preferred if at all possible

Additional Advice About Resumes
f-test it out
-have freinds read it
(especially if that friend is in the industry you are applying for)
ask:
what qualifications does this person have
what do you see these people doing with these qualifications
what kind of employer would want to hire this person
does the resume project an image of a certain kind of person.

Multimedia Ideas

For Kyle and my multimedia component of our final website project, I thought about shooting video and pictures of things pertaining to Clemson Tailgating.
some ideas of videos:
-different tailgates/atmospheres
-activities
-Clemson traditions ex) Alma Matter, cadence count, etc
-cooking clips with tips

Nazi Records; Dombrowski pg 81 - 120

The Nazi conducted tons of terrible experiements on Jews and other peoples that the Nazi party decided to exterminate. The terrible evil displayed was cause for a new word Genocide to be created to express the events.



Point of the Nazi examples? -to show how the values embedded in the scientific frame of mind can be carried to extremes and taken too far. Our role as writers is to write with ethics, very few people are involved with making sure that science does not go too far. Science also justifies itself by saying that experiments are done for the sake of science. Science can be either seen as abiding by overall ethics or creating its own ethics.

• Whenever technical objectivity is emphasized, sometimes ethics are then compromised.


• it is therefore that, technical documents are not as ethically neutral as you might think.


• The Nazi "scientific" research on prizoners is in quotations b/c
  1st it indicates the claim by the researchers that the research was scientific in nature.
  2nd it indicates that nearly all the research is now understood of being w/o genuine scientific puropose or valitidity. Its aim was actually reacial abuse and mass killing (not the pursuit of science)


• the Nazi "medical" research and human extermination technology was not really science for the sake of science, it was actually science subordinated to another value system (racial supremacy)


• In determining whether a document is ethical, you must consider the content, but also how and from where the information was obtained!

ORGANIZATION, DISSEMINATION, AND USE OF INFORMATION

reviews of : -Nazi racism, its relation to science and medicine, & its trial for crimes against humanity, and the -recent ethic debates about questionable scientific information from this regime.

purpose: to show that ethical considerations apply not only to dcoument itself or its content but also to how the informational content was obtained and how it likely will be used.

The Nazi concentration camps were originally used to remove socially undesirable people from the general population. Those in the concentration camps were also used as research subjects, without their consent. Most of the research was done to further their war effort by learning about human extremes.

Medical Specimens

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  some tissue samples that have been used in German medical schools originally were from Nazi concentration camp victims. Of course, no informed consent was used. Many Isrealis were outraged and protested to the German government. The means of how they were obtained outweighs the benefits of their use.

Research Information

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  Some information obtained by Nazi research may be benefical today; however, critics say that it should not be used at all. In the end some research was not used because it was not done with scientific methods. Barondress explained how the society allowed this to happen. First, the goal of medicine was reversed. Physicians also thought that they were doing good by removing the bad genes from the world, making it a better place. In addition, many physicians were strong Nazi proponents. People were also allowed to be killed because valueable resources were limited because of the war. Medical terminalogy also helped doctors to accept their role and also make society believe it too.

Controversy in the Present

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  Due to the unethical “scientific” or pseudoresearch of the Nazi’s, scientific research in Europe and America is scrutinized much more closely by the government and objective panels.


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  Recently, the Israelis have protested that some universities in Germany are using human organs from the Nazi prison camps for research. They protest because these people did not have any informed consent or choice about this, not to mention there was no reason for their execution, and therefore it is unethical to use them.


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  The New England Journal of Medicine took a strong stance against using the hypothermia research of the Nazis even though there could be possible medical implications because the research was unscientific, gathered by unsound methods.


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  In Journal of American Medical Association Jeremiah Barondess stated that the there was a huge reversal that happened in the Nazi regime, from medicine as healing to medicine as killing. It became a means to justify and carry out mass genocide rather than aid in helping sustain life.

Values in Nazi Medical Science

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  Physicians held a lot of power in the Nazi regime. Reasons for this: the unemployment of medical school graduates in bad economy and the need for the regime to “legitimize” its foul practices.


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  Facts should be seen as things that can be severely altered by social circumstances and are not completely certain.


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  Masked language become prominent:


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  Physicians were seen as killing with reason when the people were seen as “already dead” or in other words “not worthy of life”


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  “Euthanasia” is known as mercy killing but is suppose to be by the knowing consent of the person. The Nazi’s termed their killing as “Euthanasia” but their people had no consent, no choice.


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  “Special treatment” is usually very strong treatment used in extreme cases with the purpose of still helping the person. The Nazi’s used this for mass killing.

Nazi Antiscience

• Some say that the “science” of the Nazi’s was indeed science and shows how its objectivity is inhumane and impersonal and the enemy of human values.


• Others argue that what the Nazi’s were doing was not at all science, but the exact opposite. They opposed traditional science and its objectivity, its formal logic, its emotional neutrality in order to bring about their desired end result.

oNazi Antiscience
People have also stated that science is to blame for its inhumaneness and unethicalness. For example, science allowing doctors to see their patients as objects. Nazi science also completely disagrees with what we would consider traditional human values. Also, many experiments were not done under traditional settings allowing many unethical events to take place. Many scientists in Germany were tired of the emperical ways of doing things. In the end, Nazi science stressed moral, aesthetic and political values over reductivism and objectivism, allowing there to be an unequality between people. Science's main duty is to make strong, healthy, dominant people.

Research in the United States

• There are strict standards that not only must the information of research be accurate but the means by which it was obtained must meet specific guidelines. If not, the evidence is inadmissible, no matter how “beneficial” it could be to society.


• An example if the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in the 1920s where only African American patients were treated with placebos and effective drugs.


• Another instance is the research of the effects of radiation on humans by the utilization of unknowing humans.


• Another point of controversy is the utilization of animals in research.

Research in the United States
Should Nazi research be used or is it admissable? Americans should also realize that the US ran similar experiements, for example the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. the problem is with the methods of the experiment, not with the results. The informaiton gained can be hampered by they way it was obtained. Kant says that ethics applies to everyone with concious thought, or those with reasoning.

Nazi Technical Memorandum

• Katz believes that expediency and efficientcy have dominated our society and thus changed it. In fact, technology could be said to be a determinant of society, for example the car. Nazi memo example. Nouns are not used and it is not focused on people. Subject line avoids stating the real purpose of the memo. In addition, the memo has excellent technical writing. Are writers required to examine ethics when writing? YES!! we are!! In fact, technical values were the main importance in Germany. These values made it difficult to justify the logic.Even graphics were used in their technical writing to identify Jews. Science was abanded to prove their points These graphics helped to distance the user from the subject and the science behind it.There was also pressure from the government to legitimize beliefs by showing that science agreed

How would the different schools of ethicial thought perceive the Nazis

• Aristotle would ethically disapprove the Nazis because everything that Aristotle believes that ethics is was completely absent. Also Aristotle believes in expediency, and technical excellence which can lead to problems


• Kant would ethically condemn Nazis because not everyone was treated equally


• Utilitarianism ad Feminist and Ethics of Care would have condemned the Nazis and would favor information over other.

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"The Ethics Tradition" pages 38 - 81

The Ethics Tradition 3 Theories:
1) Confucianism
2) Emmanuel Levinas
3) Bernard Gert

Aristotle:
Aristotle deals with virtue and personal character. He defines and explains basic notions such as goodness, truth, justice, and rightness as principles for guiding our conduct. He focuses on cultivating the disposition of the person rather than the behavior itself, Ethical because of actions over time not just one act-not idealistic, we are nevertheless creatures burdened with deciding how to act in a pragmatic, imperfect world-do not deliberate about matters of science and technology-the highest principles find expression in the immediate, material realm.

Kant:
Kant deals with duty and obligation based on a fundamental universal principle-this principle explains that an action should be performed just because it is the right thing to do, regardless of its costs or benefits to us individually-strives for fairness and equality by showing that ethics can be understood by all people to apply equally to everybody-ethics to him is a deontology, an ethical system emphasizing obligation or duty-based on binding, absolute duty and obligation as they guide the application of a free will in executing what Kant calls the universal "categorical imperative" rule of ethics-only reasoning can grasp the unseen but metaphysically real principles that drive our actions, our sense, on the other hand, are too directly engaged with shifting appearances, confusing contingencies, and material satisfactions to allow them to derive any knowledge about our moral obligations, which are necessarily metaphysical-our distinguishing characteristic as humans in our reasoning ability, therefore it must serve as a basis for judging ethics-he asserts a radically autonomous free will bound by duty, coupled by reason with a radical individuality that is nevertheless one with the universal.

Relevance to Understanding the Ethics of Technical Communication
1) emphasizes a sense of duty, doing what is right regardless of competing interests or eventual outcomes.
2) conceptualizes ethics as both an individual and a social matter, or, more precisely, it defines one's personal ethical responsibilities in terms of a generic universal human being.
3) amounts to the Golden Rule; do unto others as you would have them do unto you*assumes nothing except that we are all rational beings.

Utilitarianism-
It weighs the consequences of costs of an action against benefits in order to calculate the most socially desirable course of action-treats people like somewhat interchangeable parts of the social machinery and insists on being unresponsive to the interests or feelings of individuals-"calculus" of ethics.

Feminist and Care Perspectives
Feminist Perspectives on Science as a Value System-feminist science would emphasize the whole organism and the entire interrelational social complex in which organisms fully live-men feel more comfortable thinking logically than women, hence more male science majors, etc.-be careful when using gender words in technical communication.

An Ethic of Care-
The Ethics urge other standards for making ethical decisions, such as caring concern and the quality of relationships-urge flexibility and sensitivity to the particulars of a given situation rather than insisting on inflexible, universal rules-relationships are of utmost importance-women generally emphasize caring concern, relationship, and the flexible application of values depending on the particular person and circumstance in rendering their ethical judgements.

Confucian Ethics-
Grounded in immediate realities rather than immutable, timeless absolutes-defines human responsibilities as being constituted in relationships, not in the isolation of a radical individual-insists on the subordination of individual egos to time-honored obligations of social relations and to the needs of social harmony.

Levinas-
Ethics is not an abstract or metaphysical system of principles, nor a rationally understood sense of duty, nor computational weighing of costs and benefits, nor a feeling of kindness towards others it is, rather, about our human nature relation with others.

Gert-
Morality is a public system applying to all rational persons governing behavior which affects others and which has the minimization of evil at its end, and which includes what are commonly known as the moral rules at its core.

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Outline

Logical structure of the document:
Which is similar to our problem statement and proposal

Logical structure helps you organize your thoughts


What causes writers to freeze up? The Blank Page
Why? b/c it is limitless with expectations