Cover Letters

I actually found almost all the information given in the collegegrad article to be very helpful, mainly because i know absolutely nothing about writing a good cover letter. One of the more interesting things that I found out was that the cover letter is not actually read first. I always just kind of figured since it was the "cover letter" that the employers always read this first, but actually its one of the last things read. I think another very point made was about the mass email. I havent sent many off because i have not applied to many companies, but this does actually sound like a bad idea. This kind of reminded me of Angie's story with App State. I think the only way to avoid this is to actually make each and every cover letter unique for different companies, even though this may take a little more time to do.

Client Interview

I think our client visit went really well the other day. I think that our class did a very good job of not only asking questions about the actual project and what was going on, but also alot of questions about how all these things would happen. I think one of the best ideas brought up was the question about the farm having the actual capacity to support the company we were talking about getting in touch with. I think one of the biggest concerns needs to be first getting all this information out the student body before the actual marketing begins. The reason I say this is because I for one do not even know about the Airmark or whatever company we were talking about. I didnt even know thats where Clemson got their food from. I think this is very important to get this to the students to let them know whats going on, as well as marketing to them the ideas or more organic food choices.

Interview Mistakes

I definitely think that these are some of the biggest mistakes that people make in an interview. I think all these things relate directly back to not being very prepared before the interview. I know during my interviews the biggest thing I kept telling my self was to not let myself ask any stupid questions and make my self look stupid in front of the manager or whoever was running the interview. I feel like I am very well prepared before the interview starts and when the person walks in the room it all goes down the drain and the nervousness kicks in full throttle. I think my biggest problems are that I have some pretty important questions to ask the interviewer, and when I get there I forget everything that I was thinking about. Now that I know what a cover letter and resume is supposed to look like, I feel like I didnt deserve to get some of the jobs. The biggest thing I try to think about is being as nice and try to listen as much as possible, as well as providing feedback.

Free Topic

I really dont have much going on to write about right now but I was listening to the radio the radio after the Georgia Tech game that made me really mad. I also saw it on the tigernet website. The radio host was talking about how "pathetic" the students were for not showing up and filling the student section on that Sunday night game. I was really angry because I feel like that should not have been said. I know that we have a top ten team now but there were other things going on that probably conflicted with many peoples' schedules. I know one thing that was going on was the fraternity rush. I also know that alot of people didnt go because they were still pretty mad about how the ticket distribution was done for the Wake Forest game. There were still 8 thousand people there in a 10 thousand seat arena on a Sunday night. I just think that too big a deal was made of this and it probably made any clemson fan, especially students that dont hardly miss games, angry.