Crafting Your Autobiographical Career Narrative for Job
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Seneca College**We aren't endorsed by this school
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COM 101
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Communications
Date
Dec 11, 2024
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CAREER NARRATIVE 15%Due November 21, 2024, on BlackboardWrite a 400-word career narrative in response to your job posting, using information and language relevant to the job ad. The narrative should be about 1.5 pages double-spaced. This is not a message or email or report. It is not a typical cover letter. Just write the “speech” draft. Later you will condense it into a video script.Audience: The employer of the job posting company/organization. Make sure you are talking to the audience who will be reading the text as “you.” No other “you” is relevant. Control the “you.”Guidelines:Your narrative must be relevant to organizational culture of your target organization: job posting and company mission, organization values and required skills & values relevant to posting (Assignment 3 and two skills activity week 9)Use work experiences related to volunteering or work, not high school or Humber College coursework UNLESS cocurricular. You can use “lived (personal) experience” to support your skills or values but balance them with professional ones. Internships and coops are OK as well.Tell stories, as required, of your skills related to job posting.Use the language of job posting in relation to skills required. Create meaningful, organized paragraphs with topic sentences that begin with stating at once the skill and value you are talking about.Paragraphs may be 6-7 sentences long but they have to be paragraphs. Here is your format:Title●Give the narrative a title: State organization's name and job position you're responding to.Caps, please. State your name too.Narrative/StoryAnswer the following questions in logical sequence. Write clear, correct paragraphs.●Opening paragraph 1: One-sentence paragraph. Your first sentence of your first paragraph is:
I am qualified for the position of state job titlebecause of (state one TOP relevant skill from job posting+ where you gained the experience of that skill)===ONE skill please. Use the skill claimed in job posting.●Paragraph 2: What is your short term and long-term goal in your chosen profession/field?No more than 3-5 sentences ONLY. Be specific.●Paragraph 3: Begin with topic sentence restating your top skill, drawing on relevant job posting language. Apply the Situation, Action, Result model to tell story of how you have you used it in the past to solve a problem. What was the specific situation? What was your action? What was the result? Be specific in your story telling.Be sure to clearly state skill in topic sentence and underline that sentence.Write a concluding sentence that addresses your potential employer. 6-7 sentences.●Paragraph 4: What is your second skill, drawing on relevant job posting language? Begin with topic sentence stating that skill. Write another paragraph about the second skill, using the same SAR process as in paragraph 3 OR telling a story of how you generally practice/use/improve that skill. Be sure to clearly state skill in topic sentence and underline that sentence.Write a concluding sentence that addresses your potential employer. 6-7 sentences.Paragraph 5: What ONE skill are you working on improving? Why and how? State skill and explain the process. This skill need not be from job posting.●Closing:Cite some language from organization's posting and respond to it explaining your relevance. Address the employer: Example: “Your posting says that ___________and____________ I am state logical connection/something, so …..Write out stories that you are comfortable with sharing/proud of sharing because your narrative will be the basis of video script.
Rubric for Career Narrative Assignment 15%CONTENTYESNONEEDS WORKTITLE of NARRATIVEGives name of company and position applying for, correctlyStates your nameINTROStates in one sentence what position you are qualified for including ONE top relevant skill and where acquired (specifics)EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCECorrect opening sentenceOne story or more illustrates a challenge + action + result (SAR) event or One story shows how student used/improved/learned relevant skill OR can be SAR storyOne paragraph discusses skill student is working on strengtheningConcluding sentences in paragraph 4 and 5 address employer in logical wayConcluding sentences as required: citing posting and logically connecting to student strengthTopic sentences: Skills and posting keywords underlined.All stories specific: who what where when how?Job posting language cited correctly where neededSTRUCTURE, STYLE, GRAMMARClear paragraphingTone: Clear, correct, conversational sentences Specifics in story telling (5 Ws)Correct “you-view” to demonstrate audience-awareness=potential employerRelevance to job ad posting and organizationCapitalization, grammar correctPreps and reports improved on if necessary