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10 questions, 10 different answers

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I just have to preface my post by saying that I am SO tired of getting resume advice. Just as the "Instructor Blog #2" says, if you ask 10 people, you get 10 different answers, and thus, I'm tempted to disregard about 90% of the advice I'm given -- unless it's from someone directly within the company to which I'm applying. That being said, I still think there are some universal truths, per se, to resumes that these readings hit upon.

Scientific Communication Associate – Eli Lilly, and Co.

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Scientific Communication Associate – Eli Lilly and Co.
https://jobs.lilly.com/index.cfm
*I don’t think this link will get you to the job ad I selected because of the way Lilly’s site is set up. I have copied and pasted the ad into a word document and attached it to this post, if necessary.

Audiences and Genres – Reading Response 3

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This chapter, "Organizing and Drafting," makes some good points about patterns of arrangements and the patterns that different genres follow. I've written many documents in several genres, although I've never necessarily considered them as their own genre while writing them. I suppose I always saw them as a set format, but saw that format as a set of requirements more than a tool for the audience to use while reading the document.

Reading Response 2

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Chapter 15, “Starting Your Career,” had some really good tips and explanations about how to create the documents needed to find a career.

I have always struggled somewhat with tailoring my résumé to emphasize particular skills. I feel like it’s much easier to do this when you have a lot of experience and education to choose from. It’s hard to omit irrelevant work experience if you have little to no work experience to begin with! However, the chapter made a good point about using the language of the industry to which you are applying in.

Reading Response 1

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I found it interesting that the author(s) chose to separate the readers into so many different audiences. I completely agree with the description of the primary audience, and think that this is often the most important audience to identify. These are the people who will be reading the document the most and have the most influence on the way the document should be written. While I don’t disagree with the definitions of the other audiences, I think the reading makes the distinction between these audiences too clear.

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