Think about all you have been learning on this job. In
preparation for our field trip to the Career Center, discuss what you have
learned on the job and how you could sell your qualities and skills to a future
employer. What will you include on your resume about this position to
sell yourself for a job after college. After you write your description, find
some article, video, or other electronic tidbit to illustrate one of the things
you have learned from being on this job.
When I tell people that I am a Program Assistant over 80% of
them won’t know what I do and I will end up having to explain it to them. After
I explain to them all the things that I do they usually end up comparing me to
a Resident Assistant, which most people know what they do. Yet, there are
differences between what I do as a Program assistant and what resident assistants
do. Resident assistants help students with anything that is related to their living
situation. I help students understand the living learning community program.
This includes helping them with their classes, financial issues, living
situations, people and their own lives. I have more responsibilities when it
comes to connecting with each student on an individual bases.
Some skills that I have developed from this job and would include
on my resume would be outstanding communication skills, organization, and
responsibility. I have to talk and communicate with a lot of different people
in a lot of different positions. I talk with traditional first year students,
second, third and fourth year students, international students, faculty, and
housing staff on a daily bases. I also have a lot of documentation that I have
to do with my community and creating programs. Both of these tasks have
required major organization to receive a successful outcome. Having so many
people to care for and a lot of documentation to do I have gained a number of
responsibilities that I have.
Below I have attached a short video about being a peer
advisor P.S. It is from a different school but I thought it was cute and applied to what we do as well. J
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYSgwR2dkRE
>Brittney<
I love the video you shared...I can see that we need to get our PA video going!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like communication is a skill that you are learning; are there particular things you have learned on the job about communication that you could include in a cover letter...that's the next step.